Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Rectilinear Motion

Test on Friday 10/22/10 on Chain Rule, Implicit Differentiation, Motion Problems

Today's in class examples (FDWK Ch 3 Section 4 - Selected answers in the online text):







Homework problems (FDWK Ch 3 Section 4 - Selected answers in the online text):


Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Trig Limits, Infinite Limits and Limits at Infinity

Larson 1.3 #67-81, 1.5 #33-47, 3.5 #15-31. Solutions for the odd exercises can be found in the online text.

Section 1.3


Section 1.5


Section 3.5

Monday, September 13, 2010

Limits - Algebraically

For review - remember you should be able to identify limits by looking at the graph or graph the piece-wise function first and then identify limits.




These are examples of the problems we did in class today. Hopefully these make help to make sense of why limits are so useful. You should be able to answer these questions as well.





Properties of Limits - These are the many different aspects of Direct Substitution. You should understand and be able to use them, but you don't have to memorize them.








Homework - Larson 7.0 1.3 #45-65 odds. You can access the book under Important Links on the right. Solutions are included in the actual text exercises.

Remember the strategies:
1) Direct Substitution (a.k.a. Plug-n-Chug)
2) Factor and Cancel
3) Rationalization
4) Simplifying Fractions