Math 125: Calculus I for Physics and Engineering

Fall 2009

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@fairfield.edu

Office: BNW 16

Office Hours: T 1-2, W 2-3, F 10-11, F 1-2

Textbook: Calculus by James Stewart, 6^th edition

Class Meetings: TF 2:00 - 3:15 BNW 167

Final Exam: Tuesday December 15, 1:30 PM

Other Materials

• Syllabus (pdf) LaTeX source

Coming Attractions

9/8: Homework #1 due

Section 2.2: 4, 6, 13, 14, 18, 22, 25, 30 (write cot as a fraction), 40
Section 2.3: 11, 15, 21, 22, 28, 45

9/15: Homework #2 due

Section 2.3: 1, 2
Section 2.5: 3a, 6 (look up the definition of "jump discontinuity"), 13, 17 (don't graph it), 38 (just find the discontinuities), 43, 47, 53, 61

9/22: Homework #3 due

Section 3.1: 3, 5, 7, 11, 12, 25, 28
Section 3.2: 3, 6, 8, 9, 18, 27, 33, 43

9/29: Homework #4 due

Section 3.3: 2, 5, 6, 9, 12, 14, 21, 26, 30, 51a, 67, 70a,b, 73
Section 3.4: 1, 4, 7, 8, 18, 22, 29, 33, 35

10/2: Exam #1

 

10/6: Homework #5 due

Section 3.5: 8, 9, 10, 14, 17, 20, 24, 32, 65, 66

10/20: Homework #6 due

Section 3.6: 5, 11, 14, 21, 25, 34, 51
Section 3.7: 17, 18, 19, 20, 29
Section 3.8: 3, 8, 11 (just solve it), 16, 18, 21, 38

10/27: Homework #7 due

Section 3.9: 2, 5, 25, 28, 31, 33
Section 4.1: 7, 15, 16, 18, 24, 29, 34, 36, 45, 46, 56
Selected solutions PDF

11/3: Homework #8 due

Section 4.2: 5, 7, 8, 17, 34 (if there are 2 fixed points, use MVT to get a contradiction)
Section 4.3: 5, 6, 9ab, 12ab, 14ab, 38ab
Selected solutions PDF

11/6: Exam #2

 

11/10: Homework #9 due

Section 4.3: 9c, 15, 18, 20, 21, 26, 28
Selected solutions PDF

11/17: Homework #10 due

Section 4.4: 3, 4, 11, 16, 18, 23, 34, 36
Section 4.5: 3, 6, 8
Selected solutions PDF

11/24: Homework #11 due

Section 4.5: 11, 14
Section 4.7: 6, 12, 14, 17, 32, 33
Section 4.8: 5, 8, 11, 13, 21 (subtract everything to one side so it's all equal 0)
Selected solutions PDF

12/1: Homework #12 due

Section 4.8: 29
Section 4.9: 1, 4, 5, 8, 14, 19, 53, 54
Selected solutions PDF

12/15: Homework #13 due (collected at the final exam)

Section 5.1: 2a,b,c, 4
Appendix E: 1, 4, 5, 12, 13, 15, 18, 21, 22, 31, 36, 43, 44

12/15: Final Exam

1:30 PM