Category: Class Recaps (Page 1 of 4)

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We finished Sec 3.3, covering the Product Rule and Quotient Rule, and went through some examples from the WebWork sets for each of these. We also introduced the Chain Rule (Sec 3.6 of the textbook), for differentiating a composite function–we will cover this in more detail next week, as well as the derivatives of the trig functions (Sec 3.5).

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Tues Oct 15:

Wed Oct 16:

Exam #1

We will have our first midterm exam tomorrow, Wednesday Oct 9. I posted a list of review exercises for the exam here, which includes the two quizzes (quiz solutions can be found at OpenLab Files), examples from the textbook, and most of the open WebWork set “Derivatives – Power Rule.”

We spent most of Monday’s class reviewing for the exam by going through some of these exercises–see below.

(Note that the college is closed next Monday (Oct 14), but on Tuesday Oct 15 all classes follow a Monday schedule. So next week we will have class on Tuesday and Wednesday.)

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WebWork / Exam #1

The WebWork set “Derivatives – Functions” has been extended to Wednesday (Oct 2), and the next set “Derivatives – Power Rule” is also open (due Mon Oct 7).

We will have our first midterm exam on Wednesday Oct 9. I will be posting a list of review exercises for the exam later this week. In the meantime, please work on the open WebWork sets–working through the WebWork exercises will help you prepare for the exam.

The college is closed Wed Oct 2 – Fri Oct 4, so we do not have class Wednesday Oct 2.

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We continued discussing the basic differentiation rules (i.e., rules for finding derivatives) which allow us to calculate derivatives of various functions without having to use the limit definition.

We discussed the Constant Rule, the Sum/Difference Rule, and the Constant Multiple Rule. We explained how these rules allow us to easily and quickly differentiate any polynomial function. Please understand the examples we did in class and which are presented in the textbook (Sec 3.3).

On Monday we will discuss the remaining rules presented in that section (the Product Rule and the Quotient Rule).