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Math 125, Spring 2004

Calculus 1

Writing Assignments





For Friday January 23

Section 1.1 Lines
Give brief but clear answers to the questions below. Click on this link to send me an email with your answers. Make sure to type 'Calculus Assignment' and the date in the subject line.
  1. What are the two different forms of writing a line?
  2. How do the slopes of two parallel lines compare? Of two perpendicular lines?
  3. What areas of Precalculus and Algebra do you feel you need work on?

For Monday January 26

Section 1.2: Numbers, Sets, and Functions
Give brief but clear answers to the questions below. Click on this link to send me an email with your answers. Make sure to type 'Calculus Assignment' and the date in the subject line.
  1. Describe at least two different sets of numbers?
  2. What is the graph of a function?
  3. What are some ways in which we can combine functions?

For Wednesday, January 28th

Section 1.3 Limits
Give brief but clear answers to the questions below. Click on this link to send me an email with your answers. Make sure to type 'Calculus Assignment' and the date in the subject line.
  1. What is your intuitive understanding of a limit, either from the text or from your past experiences with limits?
  2. What is a one-sided limit?
  3. How do we find the limit of the product of two functions?

For Friday, January 30th

Section 1.4: Continuity
Give brief but clear answers to the questions below. Click on this link to send me an email with your answers. Make sure to type 'Calculus Assignment' and the date in the subject line.
  1. Give both a visual and an `artistic' interpretation of continuity.
  2. Are sums and differences of continuous functions continuous? What about products and differences?
  3. Which functions satisfy the Intermediate Value Theorem. Give a 'Horizontal Line' explanation.
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