Math 119: Applied Calculus I

Fall 2014

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@fairfield.edu

Office: BNW 16

Office Hours: TF 10-11, 12-12:30, 1:30-2, W 10-11, 12-1 or by appointment

Textbook: Calculus with Applications by Lial, Greenwell, Ritchey, 10^th edition

Class Meetings: TF 12:30--1:20, W 1:00--1:50 BNW 340

Final Exam: Monday December 15, 11:30 AM.

Other Stuff

Syllabus (pdf) LaTeX source

Important dates

9/26: Exam 1
10/17: Exam 2
11/14: Exam 3
12/15: Final exam, 11:30 AM

Video links

To see the full list of videos, here's a YouTube playlist. Individual episodes are below. The video quality improves a bit after episode 8.

For 9/3: Episode 1: Limits graphically
For 9/5: Episode 2: Limits with equations
For 9/9: Episode 3: Limits at infinity
For 9/10: Episode 4: Continuity
For 9/12: Episode 5: Average rate of change
- references this PDF file
For 9/16: Episode 6: Instantaneous rate of change
For 9/17: Episode 7: The derivative
For 9/19: Episode 8: Graphs of derivatives and the power rule Video quality improves here!
For 9/23: Episode 9: Derivatives of polynomials
For 9/30: Episode 10: Product and quotient rules
For 10/1: Episode 11: The chain rule
For 10/3: Episode 12: Exponential functions
Deleted scene: Episode 12.5: A real-life example about hemochromatosis
For 10/7: Episode 13: Logarithms review Audio quality improves here!
For 10/8: Episode 14: Derivative of logarithms
For 10/10: Episode 15: Increasing and decreasing functions
For 10/21: Episode 16: Increasing and decreasing functions 2
For 10/22: Episode 17: First derivative test
For 10/24: Episode 18: First derivative test 2
For 10/28: Episode 19: Higher derivatives
For 10/29: Episode 20: Second derivative test
For 10/31: Episode 21: Curve sketching
For 11/4: Episode 22: Curve sketching 2
For 11/5: Episode 23: Absolute extrema
For 11/7: Episode 24: Antiderivatives
For 11/11: Episode 25: Initial value problems
For 11/18: Episode 26: Substitution
For 11/19: Episode 27: Estimating areas with rectangles
For 11/21: Episode 28: Trapezoid & Simpson's rules
For 11/25: Episode 29: Integrals and total change
For 12/2: Episode 30: The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
For 12/3: Episode 31: Areas