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   A note to the student.
   Final Exam: Date, Ground Rules and Rooms.
   Text: Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 5th Edition, Stewart
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Week Outline/Study Guide Quiz/Exam Archive Topics and Textbook Sections
1 Outline 1 Week 1 Quizzes
Precalculus.
(Sec. 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.6, Appendix D)
2 Outline 2 Week 2 Quizzes
Parametric equations, tangent lines, rates of change, average velocity, instantaneous velocity, limits and their calculation.
(Sec. 10.1 or supplement reading, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3).
3 Outline 3 Week 3 Quizzes
Continuity, limits at infinity.
(Sec. 2.5, 2.6).
4 Outline 4 ----
Definition of the derivative, graphical differentiation, beginning of differentiation rules.
(Sec. 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.1).
5 Outline 5 MIDTERM #1
Midterm Review, Midterm #1, more basic differentiation rules.
(Sec. 3.2, 3.4)
6 Outline 6 Week 6 Quizzes
The chain rule, implicit differentiation, higher order derivatives.
(Sec. 3.5, 3.6, 3.7).
7 Outline 7 ----
Logarithmic differentiation, related rates, midterm review.
(Sec. 3.8, 3.10).
8 Outline 8 MIDTERM #2
Midterm #2, tangent line approximation, introduction to min/max theory.
(Sec. 3.11, 4.1).
9 Outline 9 Week 9 Quizzes
More on derivative tests, L'Hopital's Rule, curve sketching
(Sec. 4.3, 4.4, 4.5)
10 Outline 10 Week 10-OLD FINAL EXAMS
Optimization problems, final exam review.
(Sec. 4.7)

 

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