Math 119: Applied Calculus I

Fall 2016

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@fairfield.edu

Office: BNW 16

Office Hours: T 10-11, 12-12:30; W 10-11; F 10-11, 12-12:30 or by appointment

Textbook: Calculus with Applications by Lial, Greenwell, Ritchey, 10^th or 11^th edition

Class Meetings: Section 03: TF 12:30-1:20, W 1-1:50, BNW 137 Section 04: TWF 11-11:50, BNW 340

Final Exam: Section 03: Saturday December 17, 11:30 Section 04: Thursday December 15, 8:00AM

Other Stuff

Syllabus (pdf) LaTeX source

Important dates

9/23: Exam 1
10/21: Exam 2
11/18: Exam 3
12/15: Section 04 final exam, 8AM
12/17: Section 03 final exam, 11:30

Video links

For 9/7: Episode 1: Limits graphically
For 9/9: Episode 2: Limits algebraically
For 9/13: Episode 3: Continuity
For 9/14: Episode 4: Continuity 2
For 9/16: Episode 5: Average rate of change
- references this PDF file
For 9/20: Episode 6: Instantaneous rate of change
For 9/27: Episode 7: The derivative
For 9/28: Episode 8: Graphs of derivatives
For 9/30: Episode 9: Derivatives of polynomials
For 10/4: Episode 10: Product and quotient rules
For 10/5: Episode 11: Chain rule
For 10/7: Episode 12: Exponential functions
- Deleted scene: Episode 12.5: A real-life example about hemochromatosis
For 10/12: Episode 13: Logarithms review
For 10/14: Episode 14: Derivative of logarithms
For 10/18: Episode 15: Increasing and decreasing functions
For 10/25: Episode 16: Increasing and decreasing functions 2
For 10/26: Episode 17: First derivative test
For 10/28: Episode 18: First derivative test 2
For 11/1: Episode 19: Higher derivatives
For 11/2: Episode 20: Second derivative test
For 11/4: Episode 21: Curve sketching
For 11/8: Episode 22: Curve sketching 2
For 11/9: Episode 23: Absolute extrema
For 11/11: Episode 24: Antiderivatives
For 11/15: Episode 25: Initial value problems
For 11/22: Episode 26: Substitution
For 11/29: Episode 27: Estimating areas with rectangles
For 11/30: Episode 28: Trapezoid & Simpson's rules
For 12/2: Episode 29: Integrals and total change
For 12/6: Episode 30: The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
For 12/7: Episode 31: Areas
- 11:00 class
- 12:30 class