Math 1172, Calculus II

Spring 2025

General Information

Class Meetings: TF 9:30-10:45 Bannow 335, W 9:00-9:50 Nursing 410

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Office: BNW GR-17

Office Hours: TF 11-12:30, W 10-1
All office hours are in my office (Bannow GR17), or on Zoom. Zoom link: https://fairfield.zoom.us/j/5514910533

Textbook: Calculus by Stewart, Clegg, & Watson, 8^th or 9^th edition

Final Exam: Tuesday May 6, 8-11AM

Other Stuff

Syllabus (pdf)
Mastery topics checklist (pdf)

Tests & Homework

1/29: Homework #1 due: Section 4.3 #26, 29, 33, 39
Section 4.4 #10, 11, 13, 18 (look up appropriate formulas for integrating sec and tan)
Section 4.5 #9, 17, 20, 31, 38
Section 5.1 #1, 3, 17, 18 (for 17 & 18 just find the area)
Professor's answers PDF
2/5: Homework #2 due: Section 5.2 #13, 15, 21, 25
Section 5.3 #2 (just find the volume), 10, 12, 31a
Section 6.1 #5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 18, 41, 46
Professor's answers PDF
2/12: Homework #3 due: Section 6.2* #2a, 4a, 5b, 16, 19, 22, 64, 67, 72
Section 6.3* #6a, 7a, 32, 33, 84
Section 6.4* #26, 28, 29, 46, 50
Make sure you are doing the * sections! (6.2* is different from 6.2)
Professor's answers PDF
2/19: Homework #4 due: Section 6.4* #8a, 8b (do this without a calculator), 10
Section 6.6 #1, 2, 19, 22, 35, 64, 75
Section 6.8 #9, 15, 24, 47, 53
Professor's answers PDF
2/26: Homework #5 due: Section 7.1 #5, 7, 10, 15, 25 , 26
Professor's answers PDF
3/5: Homework #6 due: Section 7.2 #4, 7, 11, 18 (for 18, rewrite everything as sin and cos first)
Section 7.3 #10, 12
Professor's answers PDF
3/19: Homework #7 due: Section 7.3 9 (Hint: after expressing as sin & cos, do the "save one" trick)
Section 7.4 #9, 12, 17 (for 17, the partial fractions will have 3 terms, like in book "Example 2"), 18
Section 7.8 #11, 22, 23, 25 , 28
Professor's answers PDF
3/21: Midterm exam: Professor's answers PDF
3/26: Homework #8 due: Section 7.8 #39, 42
Section 8.1 #12, 13, 16, 51
Professor's answers PDF
4/2: Homework #9 due: Section 11.1 #4, 9, 14, 19, 20, 31, 33, 47, 71, 72, 78, 80, 84 (if you say these are increasing or decreasing, prove it)
Professor's answers PDF
4/9: Homework #10 due: Section 11.2 #3, 4, 23, 24, 54, 56, 60
Professor's answers PDF
4/16: Homework #11 due: Section 11.3 13, 17, 19, 23
Section 11.4 12, 16, 17, 19, 45 (for #17 and #45 you must use the inequalities, not the limit comparison)
Professor's answers PDF
4/23: Homework #12 due: Section 11.5 4, 6, 8, 14 (if you think it diverges, you must show it using some other method)
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4/30: Homework #13 due: Section 11.6 8, 12, 22, 26, 30, 31
Section 11.8 6, 13, 15, 26
5/6: Final exam: 8 - 11am

Class recordings

Here is a YouTube playlist