All old WebWork sets have been reopened. All sets are now due on Sunday night.
(1) Don’t forget: your final exam is on Monday, December 22 at the usual time and place. Two weeks from today!
(2) This week’s quiz will be your last quiz of the semester. It will cover material/problems from 4.5 L’Hopital’s rule.
(3) The final exam review sheet can be found here.
(4) The WebWork for L’Hopital’s rule is due tomorrow night. The WebWork for Applied Optimization is due next Sunday night.
(5) Our next two topics are called Antiderivatives and Definite Integrals. There is only one WebWork set for these two topics. It is due next Thursday (an unusual day). You’ll be able to complete at least the first half of it after this Wednesday’s class.
Grades are now posted in Blackboard’s gradebook.
This is just a note about notation. The function “exp” is different notation for the exponential function with base 
This week’s quiz will cover material from sections 4.3 and 4.4.
Your last in-class test before the final exam will be held on Monday, December 1. It will cover sections 3.10, 3.11, 4.1-4.4, 2.7, and 4.6.
Upcomping WebWork deadlines:
Extreme Values: Tuesday, November 18
Monotonicity: Sunday, November 23
Shape of Graphs: Tuesday, November 25
CurveSketching Asymptotes: Sunday, December 1
This week’s quiz will cover sections 4.1 and 4.2.
This week’s quiz will cover Implicit Differentiation and/or Related Rates (3.10 & 3.11 in your text).
Due Sunday, November 16: Linearization
Note: for #7, convert degrees to radians. The reason for this is that the derivatives that we know for sin(x) and cos(x) are true only when x is given in radians. See Example 7 in section 3.7 for the derivatives when x is given in degrees.
Due Tuesday, November 18: Extreme Values
The sets Implicit Differentiation and Related Rates are both due next Sunday night.
By the way, I created some scatter plots that related test and quiz grades to WebWork grades, just to see if they were correlated. It’s not really a surprise that they are; they people who have higher WebWork grades have higher test and quiz grades. You can see for yourself.
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