Author Archives: Kate Poirier

Here’s a soundtrack for your last-minute exam preparation. To be clear: you are Rocky and tomorrow’s exam is every opponent Rocky ever faced (in Rocky I through IV at least; I forget what happens in Rocky V). It might knock … Continue reading →

ExtraCredit As announced in class today, you will have the opportunity to complete an assignment for extra credit (link to PDF above). Assignments that are complete and thoughtful can earn up to an extra 1% for your overall grade. This … Continue reading →

1575Test3Solutions

As soon as class ended today, I realized that we had forgotten something important when setting up the integral that computed the volume of the solid obtained by rotating the region between and the -axis, between and , about the … Continue reading →

Test #3 grades are now posted in Blackboard’s gradebook. It will still be a few days before solutions are available.

Here are some helpful links for this Thursday’s and next week’s lectures: Riemann sums left endpoint, right endpoint, midpoint Riemann sum calculator Solids of revolution (disk/washer method and shell method)

I’ll show these two graphs in class on Tuesday. (It’s convenient to store the links here; you can click on them before Tuesday’s class if you like.)