Reminder – HW#1 & Quiz #1 Wednesday:

HW#1 will be due Wednesday (Sept 11). Please write out the solutions to the following exercises from the OpenStax textbook on paper and hand them in on Wednesday. Also we will take a short quiz at the end of class Wednesday, with one or two exercises similar to the HW exercises. This quiz will be open book–you can use your HW and class notes.

We went through the concepts and techniques for the exercises in HW#1:

  • simplifying f(a+h) for a given function f(x) — with the followup of simplifying f(a+h) – f(a), and then [f(a+h) – f(a)]/h, for the definition of the derivative!
  • equations of lines, in particular the point-slope form (since this is what we will use to write down equations of tangent lines
  • finding slopes of secant lines