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Math 8 Fall 2011
Syllabus

Additional study resources appear at the bottom of the page. Solutions to the midterms are linked at their place in the syllabus.

Week 1
Weds 21 Sept7.1: Integration by parts
Exercises 9, 17, 23, 33, 38, 41
Fri 23 Sept7.2: Trigonometric integrals
Exercises 6, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33
Week 2
Mon 26 Sept7.3: Trigonometric substitution
Exercises 5, 9, 15, 23, 25, 35
Weds 28 Sept7.4: Method of partial fractions
Exercises 4, 11, 19, 21, 27, 33
Fri 30 Sept11.1-2: Sequences and series
11.1 exercises 26, 28, 29, 34, 42
11.2 exercises 8, 14, 32, 48
Week 3
Mon 3 Oct11.2, 7.8: Series and improper integrals
7.8 exercises 8, 12, 28, 34
Weds 5 Oct11.3-4: The integral test and comparison tests
11.3 exercises 8, 13, 18, 22
11.4 exercises 6, 12, 25, 27
Fri 7 Oct11.5: Alternating series
Exercises 10, 16, 24, 28, 32
Week 4
Mon 10 Oct11.6: Absolute convergence and the ratio and root tests
Exercises 6, 11, 16, 18, 22, 29
End of material covered by midterm 1
Weds 12 Oct11.8: Power series
Exercises 11, 13, 21, 25
Thurs 13 OctMidterm 1, 5:00-7:00 pm, Cook Auditorium
Solutions
Fri 14 Oct11.9: Representing functions with power series
Exercises 9, 11, 23, 27
Week 5
Mon 17 Oct11.10: Taylor and Maclaurin series
Exercises 9, 10, 13, 19
Weds 19 Oct11.10: Taylor and Maclaurin series
Exercises 34, 49, 52, 56, 64, 68
Fri 21 Oct12.1: Three-dimensional coordinate systems
Exercises 3, 7, 11, 16, 24, 32, 33
Week 6
Mon 24 Oct12.2: Vectors
Exercises 11, 17, 21, 25, 33
Weds 26 Oct12.3: The dot product
Exercises 5, 9, 17, 23, 25, 33, 41, 45
Fri 28 Oct12.4: The cross product
Exercises 3, 11, 15, 19, 29, 33, 35, 37
Week 7
Mon 31 Oct12.5: Equations of lines and planes
Exercises 5, 9, 11, 13, 21, 27, 35, 37, 47, 55, 59, 61, 69
Weds 2 Nov13.1-2: Vector functions and their derivatives and integrals
13.1 exercises 1, 5, 13, 17, 21-26, 27
13.2 exercises 7, 9, 17, 23, 27, 39
Fri 4 Nov13.3: Arc length and curvature
Exercises 3, 18, 23, 29
End of material covered by midterm 2
Week 8
Mon 7 Nov14.1: Functions of several variables
Exercises 11, 17, 29, 49, 65, 67
Tues 8 NovMidterm 2, 5:00-7:00 pm, Cook Auditorium
Solutions
Weds 9 Nov14.2: Limits and continuity
Exercises 7, 11, 15, 17, 31, 37
Fri 11 Nov14.3: Partial derivatives
Exercises 25, 31, 41, 49, 55, 67, 69
Week 9
Mon 14 Nov14.4: Tangent planes and linear approximations
Exercises 3, 11, 17, 31, 33
Weds 16 Nov14.5: The chain rule
Exercises 3,9,25,27,33,39,43
Fri 18 Nov14.6: Directional derivatives and the gradient vector
Exercises 13, 15, 25, 31, 43, 59
Week 10
Mon 21 Nov14.7: Maximum and minimum values
Exercises 7, 11, 15, 33, 35, 39, 41, 45
Thanksgiving Break
Week 11
Mon 28 Novwrap-up
Weds 30 Novwrap-up
Sat 3 DecFinal Exam, 11:30 am-2:30 pm, Life Sciences Center room 100

Exam 1 Review problems


Chapter 7 review Exercises 3, 7, 9, 17, 21, 23, 39, 43, 47
Chapter 11 review Exercises 1, 5, 7, 13, 15, 19, 25, 27, 29, 41

Exam 2 Review problems


Chapter 11 review Exercises 43, 45, 49, 53, 55, 57, 59
Chapter 12 review Exercises 4, 7, 10, 17, 19, 23, 26
Chapter 13 review Exercises 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 12

Chapter 14 Review problems


Exercises 1, 5, 10, 13, 19, 29, 35, 45, 47, 53, 55

Graphing Resources

David Lippman of Pierce College has made a graphing applet available (in either Javascript or non-Javascript form). You may graph in 2D or 3D and rotate the graphs to view them from different angles.

If you have a Mac, you can use the Grapher program, located in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. Here are some files for sections 14.3 and 14.4: tangent1 and tangent2. Each of them features a different function and 7 equations related to that function. In order, they are: the surface, the curve in the surface when y is fixed, the curve in the surface when x is fixed, the tangent line over the first curve, the tangent line over the second curve, the normal line to the surface, and the tangent plane. In tangent1 the point of tangency is (1,0) and in tangent2 it is (1,1).

Another Grapher file: absoluteextrema. This shows the image of the unit circle on the function to help visualize the absolute extrema of that function in the unit disk.

Last modified 28 Nov 2011 by RW.