Course: Mathematics 131 A, Calculus and
Analytic Geometry 1, Spring 2000, Central
College.
Professor: Tom
Linton, 312B Central Hall, (515) 628-5264, email: lintont@central.edu.
Class Meets: MTWF 10 to 10:50 AM, MTWF in Central
Hall 308.
Office Hours: 11 AM Monday, 9 AM Tuesday, 3 PM
Wednesday, 1 PM Thursday and Friday, or by appointment.
Text: Calculus from Graphical, Numerical, and
Symbolic Points of View by Ostebee and Zorn.
Course Syllabus
and a schedule
with assignments. Be sure to read the author's preface
for students (also in your textbook).
Final Exam: Wednesday May 17, 8 AM, 308 Central
Hall.
TI-83 Graphing Calculator Materials:
We will use graphing calculators extensively in this course. The links
below point to files designed to help students better utilize their graphing
calculator (assuming it is a TI-83).
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Introduction:A
general introduction to several features of the TI-83 calculator.
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Graphing:
A look at several notions (menus, windows, tables, finding roots, ...)
related to the graphing capabilities of the TI-83 calculator.
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Functions:
Entering and evaluating expressions giving formulas for functional relationships.
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Integer
Functions: A brief description of integer valued functions (round-up,
round-down etc.) on the TI-83.
Class Materials:
quiz
1, linear functions and graphs.
quiz
2, periodic functions.
Exam 1 practice
problems, and the answers,
chapter 1 of OZ.
Activity on estimating
values of f '(x).
quiz
3, rate functions and estimating values of f '(a).
quiz
4, relations between f(x), f '(x) and f ''(x).
Exam 2 review sheet answers.
Project 2: Help Bud, Weiss and
Irv escape from the pad.