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Test #1 – extra-credit assignment

As announced in class today, you can resubmit a completed test #1 to boost your test grade up to 20%. This extra-credit assignment has two components: Print out and complete test #1. You are encouraged to make a rough copy … Continue reading

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Test

Can you post a copy of the test? 😀

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Question regarding the WW HW

Alright lads, Given y=(x+sinx)^4 Find g(x) and f(x) such that f 0 g (i.e. f(g(x))) =y. Compute the derivative using chain rule. I got the answer through observation, however I didn’t have a solid method, We know f o g= … Continue reading

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Test #1 – March 12

Test #1 will be given in class next Wednesday, March 12. It will cover everything up to and including this Wednesday’s lecture. This includes Chapter 2 except for 2.8 (there’ll be an extra-credit question like those in 2.9 but otherwise … Continue reading

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Two interesting events on campus tomorrow – Thursday, February 27

These two events might compete for your attention during club hours tomorrow. I’ll be in a meeting, but if I weren’t, I’d be interested in attending either the Math Club talk or the Physics Club talk myself! Details for both … Continue reading

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Exercise for Wednesday

At the end of today’s class we saw that we could use to prove that the derivative of is . Try using this fact to determine the derivative of , where is any positive number. Hint 1: There’s a clever … Continue reading

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Slopes of tangent lines – practice for tonight

At the end of today’s class each group used the limit formula to compute slopes of tangents for for points of tangency with -coordinates latex 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The slopes were , and respectively. From this, you … Continue reading

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Testing…

The most commonly used math typesetting language is called (pronounced LAY-teck). WordPress (and the OpenLab) apparently support Latex commands but since I’m new here, I just wanted to experiment with the input…so you can ignore any math-symbol gibberish at the … Continue reading

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Welcome!

Welcome to the Spring 2014 MAT1475H OpenLab site! I’m still getting the hang of the OpenLab, but expect to move slowly over from Blackboard. The site still needs plenty of editing and updating, but stay tuned!

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