COURSE INFO

SCHEDULE

SYLLABUS

HOMEWORK

WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

OFFICE HOURS

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. 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.

For Thursday, December 2

1. How is integration readily applicable to our study of hydrostatic pressure? (ie, what are we doing to the surfaces that lends itself nicely to integration)
2. Give a prose interpretation of the phrase "center of mass".
3. Visit this site for a simulator of the Monty Hall problem How does the problem change if the host does not know the location of the car

For Friday, December 3

1. Explain the term 'consumer surplus'. What factors might lead the demand curve to be a 'curve' rather than a straight line?
2. Why might the velocity of blood be greater near the center of a vein?
3. Read exercise 15 and explain why the output concentration function makes sense.

For Tuesday, December 7

1. What is a differential equation? Why is it useful?
2. What is an equilibrium solution to a Differential Equation?
3. Why does population growth satisfy an exponential differential equation?

For Tuesday, December 7

1. What concepts do you feel most solid on from the semester?
2. What concepts do you feel you need to spend more time on in studying for the final.
   
   
   

   ---

   Course Evaluations

   Please link to this site to fill out an evalutation for the course. You may do this anytime until Friday.

   ---

   Practice Exam

   You may download a copy of the practice exam here . The solutions are here. I didn't get a chance to proofread these too carefully, so there's a one point bonus on the final for each (significant) typo or error that you find.