Math 1121: Applied Calculus I
Fall 2021
General Information
Class meetings
Section 05: TF 9:30-10:20, W 9-9:50, Bannow 139
Section 06: TF 12:30-1:20, W 1-1:50, Bannow 334
Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal
Homepage)
Email: cstaecker@fairfield.edu
Textbook:
Calculus with Applications by Lial, Greenwell, Ritchey, 11th edition
Office Hours: TF 11:30-12:30, 1:30-2, W 12-1
All office hours are in my office (Bannow GR16), or on Zoom. Zoom link: https://fairfield.zoom.us/j/5514910533
Final Exam:
Section 05: Tuesday December 21, 8AM
Section 06: Tuesday December 21, 11:30AM
Links
Schedule
You should watch each video before class time on the listed day.
Here is a YouTube playlist of all the videos.
- 9/8: Episode 1: Limits graphically
Homework: Section 2.1 #38, 39, Section 3.1 #3, 6, 7, 8, 10
Professor's answers PDF
- 9/10: Episode 2: Limits algebraically
Homework: Section 3.1 #32, 33, 35, 36, 42
Professor's answers PDF
- 9/14: Episode 3: Limits at infinity
Homework: Section 3.1 #43-52, 89
Professor's answers PDF
- 9/15: Episode 4: Continuity
Homework: Section 3.2 #2, 6, 7, 10
Professor's answers PDF
- 9/17: Episode 5: Piecewise functions
Homework: Section 3.2 #20bc, 23bc, 37, 39 (for 37 and 39, just write a formula for the function, don't do their questions), 41ab
Professor's answers PDF
Quiz #1 (covers 1-4)
- 9/21: Episode 6: Average rate of change
Homework: Section 3.3 #2, 5, 27a, 28ab, 31a, 40ab
Professor's answers PDF
- 9/22: Episode 7: Instantaneous rate of change
Homework: Section 3.3 #10, 12, 17, 27c, 44c
Professor's answers PDF
Grading ratios due today email the professor.
- 9/24: Episode 8: The derivative
Homework: Section 3.4 #13, 14, 15, 49, 50
Professor's answers PDF
Quiz #2 (covers 5-7)
- 9/28: Episode 9: Derivatives on graphs
Homework: Section 3.5 #7, 8, 9, 11, 16, 17, 24
Professor's answers PDF
- 9/29: Review day! (no video / homework)
Review work PDF (morning section)
Review work PDF (afternoon section)
- 10/1: Exam #1 (covers 1-9)
Exam #1 answers (morning section)
Exam #1 answers (afternoon section)
- 10/5: Episode 10: Derivatives of polynomials
Homework: Section 4.1 #4, 7, 13, 20, 21, 34, 38, 58, 60, 72
Professor's answers PDF
- 10/6: Episode 11: Product rule and quotient rule
Homework: Section 4.2 #1, 7, 12, 25, 27, 28, 45, 52a
Professor's answers PDF
- 10/8: Episode 12: The chain rule
Homework: Section 4.3 #22, 23, 30, 33, 39, 49, 56, 64
Professor's answers PDF
Quiz #3 (covers 10 & 11)
- 10/13: Episode 13: Exponential functions
Homework: Section 4.4 #4, 12, 19, 24, 27, 32, 33, 45
Professor's answers PDF
- 10/15: Episode 14: Logarithms
Homework: Section 2.5 #2, 8, 14, 17, 22, 58, 60, 61, 89
Professor's answers PDF
Quiz #4 (covers 12 & 13)
- 10/19: Episode 15: Derivative of logs
Homework: Section 4.5 #4, 8, 9, 11, 16, 21, 33, 36, 39, 64ab
Professor's answers PDF
- 10/20: Episode 16: Increasing & Decreasing
Homework: Section 5.1 #5, 6, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20
Professor's answers PDF
- 10/22: Episode 17: Increasing & Decreasing 2
Homework: Section 5.1 #23, 24, 29, 32, 48
Professor's answers PDF
Quiz #5 (covers 14-16)
- 10/26: Episode 18: First derivative test
Homework: Section 5.2 #2, 6, 13, 14, 17, 19, 57
Professor's answers PDF
- 10/27: Review day! (no video / homework)
Review work PDF (morning section)
Review work PDF (afternoon section)
- 10/29: Exam #2 (covers 10-18)
Exam #2 answers (morning section)
Exam #2 answers (afternoon section)
- 11/2: Episode 19: More first derivative test
Homework: Section 5.2 #27, 30, 48 (don't bother with the DNE part for this one), 49 (book answer is wrong for this one), 56
Professor's answers PDF
- 11/3: Episode 20: Higher derivatives
Homework: Section 5.3 #3, 7, 14, 16, 21, 27, 29, 31
Professor's answers PDF
- 11/5: Episode 21: Second derivative test
Homework: Section 5.3 #38, 39, 41, 61, 63, 89
Professor's answers PDF
Quiz #6 (covers 19 & 20)
- 11/9: Episode 22: Curve sketching
Homework: Section 5.4 #4, 6, 8, 9 (for all these, just graph the function- show enough work so that I know how you did it)
Professor's answers PDF
- 11/10: Episode 23: Curve sketching with asymptotes
Homework: Section 5.4 #13, 16, 19 (for these, just graph the function- show enough work so that I know how you did it)
Professor's answers PDF
- 11/12: Episode 24: Absolute extrema
Homework: Section 6.1 #12, 14, 16, 17, 42, 53
Professor's answers PDF
Quiz #7 (covers 21-23)
- 11/16: Episode 25: The antiderivative
Homework: Section 7.1 #9, 15, 21, 25, 30, 31, 33, 37, 42
Professor's answers PDF
- 11/17: Review day! (no video / homework)
Review work PDF (morning section)
Review work PDF (afternoon section)
- 11/19: Exam #3 (covers 19-25)
Exam #3 answers (morning section)
Exam #3 answers (afternoon section)
- 11/23: Episode 26: Initial value problems
Homework: Section 7.1 #45, 51, 58, 60, 66, 67
Professor's answers PDF
- 11/30: Episode 27: Integration by substitution
Homework: Section 7.2 #7, 10, 14, 17, 20, 29
Professor's answers PDF
- 12/1: Episode 28: Area estimates with rectangles
Homework: Section 7.3 #6, 7, 9, 11 (no part c for any of these)
Professor's answers PDF
- 12/3: Episode 29: Trapezoid and Simpson's rules
Homework: Section 7.6 #3, 6, 8, 11 (no part c for any of these)
Professor's answers PDF
Quiz #8 (covers 26-28)
- 12/7: Episode 30: Total Change Theorem
Homework: Section 7.3 #25, 26, 29, 30 (for those 4, just do left and right, don't do the average), 39, 40, Section 7.6 #23, 32
- 12/8: Episode 31: Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Homework: Section 7.4 #3, 6, 10, 15, 17, 26, 30
- 12/10: Review day! (no video / homework)
- 12/21: Final Exam (covers everything)