Calculus I Notes
Fall 2011

Textbook Links

• The text we will be using is "Calculus with Early Transcendentals", by James Stewart, and this is a new edition- The 7th edition. Here is a link to Amazon.com if you'd like to get the ISBN or other information
• Here is the publisher's website, with extra information and review material.
• The publisher has a "three step program". Some interesting optional material is available here, including video lectures and video solutions (but of course they charge extra for that).

Beginning Material and Homework

• Course Syllabus
• Course Calendar
• Homework to the first exam
• Homework to first exam, update 1
• Homework to first exam, update 2
• Homework to the second exam
• Homework to the second exam, update 1.
• Homework to the final exam
• Homework to the final exam (UPDATE 1 to switch timing of 4.7 and 4.8)

Materials by Chapter

• Chapter 1
• Homework for Sections 1.1-1.3 are posted on the CLEo site (if you haven't gotten the book yet).
• Lecture 1 Group Work (Not used- You might look at this for extra practice)
• Solutions
• Trigonometry summary is posted on CLEo.
• Chapter 2
• Quiz 3 is here. You may turn in solutions to the quiz on Tuesday (at the beginning of class). Your overall score for Quiz 3 will be a weighted average of the in-class portion and the score for the solutions you turn in Tuesday. You're on your honor to do the work yourself. You may review the text before you do it, but your work should be as if you were in class.
• Overhead for Section 2.8 Homework
• Chapter 3
• Algebra/Trig review solutions
• Overhead graphs for Section 3.5
• Related Rates set ups
• Section 3.9 Group work: SOLUTIONS
• A couple of hints for 3.10

Exam Materials

• Exam 1 Materials:
  • Summary of Material to Exam 1
  • Review Questions
  • Solutions to Review (updated to correct answers to 18(a), 23(e))
• Exam 2 Materials:
  • Review Materials for Exam 2
  • Solutions to the review questions. If you see anything that looks like it may be an error, please let me know. (Updated to solve the correct Exercise 8).
• Exam 3 Materials:
  • Review Questions (for Thursday)
  • Solutions for the Review Questions
• FINAL EXAM materials
• Overview of Calculus I
• Sample Questions for the Final
• Solutions to the review (kind of a large document)

For the Curious...

• Elvis the Calculus Dog Original Paper is here, Video from CNN is here
• Math Folklore: The Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz and the Pythagorean Theorem.
• The 7 (now 6) greatest unsolved problems in Mathematics (The Millenium Prize Problems)
• Why is Calculus Important?
• So who invented Calculus? Read short biographies of Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz...
• The television show NOVA on PBS suggests that Isaac Newton had some dark secrets
• Why are there 360 degrees in a circle (instead of say, 100 degrees)?
• Why "Pi"?