Math 1172, Calculus II

Fall 2026

General Information

Class Meetings: Section 1: MR 11-12:15, W 11-11:50, Bannow 334 Section 2: MR 9:30-10:45, W 9-9:50, Bannow 334

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@fairfield.edu

Office: BNW GR-17

Office Hours: M 8:30-9:30, 12:30-1:30, W 10-11, R 8:30--9:30, 5:30--6:30 or by appointment
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, 9^th edition

Final Exam: Section 1: Monday 12/14, 11:30am Section 2: Thursday 12/17, 8am

Other Stuff

• Syllabus (pdf)
• Mastery topics checklist (pdf)
• Mastery practice problems (pdf)

Tests & Homework

9/16: Homework #1 due

Chapter 2 Review Exercises #13, 14, 17, 20, 41
Section 4.3 #26, 29, 33, 39
Section 4.4 #10, 11, 13
Section 4.5 #9, 20, 30, 31, 38
Professor's answers pdf

9/23: Homework #2 due

Section 5.1 #1, 3, 17, 18 (for 17 & 18 just find the area)
Section 5.2 #13, 15, 21, 25 (use washers for all of these, not shells)
Professor's answers pdf

9/30: Homework #3 due

Section 5.3 #2 (just find the volume), 10, 12, 25, 28, 31a (use shells for all of these, not washers)
Section 6.2* #2, 4, 16, 19, 22, 64, 67, 72, 80
Make sure you are doing the * section! (6.2* is different from 6.2)
Professor's answers pdf

10/7: Homework #4 due

Section 6.3* #6, 7, 32, 33, 84
Section 6.4* #7, 8, 26, 28, 29, 33, 46, 50
Make sure you are doing the * sections!
Professor's answers pdf

10/14: Homework #5 due

Section 6.6 #1, 2, 19, 22, 35, 64, 71, 75
Section 6.8 #9, 15, 24, 47, 50, 53
Section 7.1 #5, 7, 10, 15, 25, 29, 57, 58

10/15: Catch-up Exam #1

Covers topics 1 - 11
Professor's answers, 9:30 section
Professor's answers, 11:00 section

10/21: Homework #6 due

Section 7.2 #4, 7, 11, 18 (for 18, rewrite everything as sin and cos first)

10/28: Homework #7 due

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, 35, 39, 42
No homework problems for integration gumbo, but it will be on the quiz!
You can look over problems in Section 7.5 for gumbo practice if you like.

11/4: Homework #8 due

Section 11.1 #4, 9, 14, 19, 20, 31, 33, 47, 71, 78, 80, 84 (if you say these are increasing or decreasing, prove it)

12/10: Catch-up Exam #2 (last day of class)

 

Monday 12/14: Section 1 Final exam

11:30-2:30, in the usual classroom

Thursday 12/17: Section 2 Final exam

8-11am, in the usual classroom

Class recordings