Math 246 FALL 2019, List of lectures

  • On this page I will post content of all lectures with reference to the book. All handouts also will be posted here.
  • Tuesday, October 1: Rate of change: average and instantaneous. Section 2.1.
  • Wednesday, October 2: Secant lines and tangent lines. Section 2.1. Here is homework!
  • Friday, October 4: Limits and their Laws. Section 2.2.
  • Monday, October 7: Continuity. Section 2.3. We will have QUIZ on Friday!!!
  • Tuesday, October 8: Problem solving session.
  • Wednesday, October 9: Derivatives. Section 2.4. New homework!
  • Friday, October 11: Sum rule and Power rule for derivatives. Section 2.5. We had quiz today; here are the solutions.
  • Monday, October 14: Product Rule and Quotient Rule. Section 2.6. We will have QUIZ on Friday!!!
  • Tuesday, October 15: Problem solving session.
  • Wednesday, October 16: The Chain Rule. The Inverse Functions. Section 2.9. New homework!
  • Friday, October 18: The derivatives of exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions. Sections 2.8 and 2.10. We had quiz today; here are the solutions.
  • Monday, October 21: The second derivative. Implicit differentiation and related rates. Sections 2.7 and 2.9. We will have MIDTERM on Friday!!! Please find review problems here.
  • Tuesday, October 22: Problem solving session.
  • Wednesday, October 23: Midterm review. New homework! Please find answer key to review problems here.
  • Friday, October 24: MIDTERM. Here are the solutions.
  • Monday, October 27: Discrete Dynamical Systems. Section 1.5.
  • Tuesday, October 28: Problem solving session.
  • Wednesday, October 29: Graphical analysis and equilibria (=fixed points). Section 1.6. New homework!
  • Friday, November 1: Competing bacterial populations model. Section 1.10.
  • Monday, November 4: Stable and unstable equilibria via derivatives. Section 3.1. We will have QUIZ on Friday!!!
  • Tuesday, November 5: Problem solving session.
  • Wednesday, November 6: Stability of equilibria in the case of negative derivative. Sections 3.1-3.2. New homework!
  • Friday, November 8: Logistic model and Ricker model. Section 3.2. We had quiz today; here are the solutions.
  • Monday, November 11: Global and local maxima and minima. Critical points. Section 3.3. We will have QUIZ on Friday!!!
  • Extra credit opportunity: choose one of the ``Computer Exercises'' in Section 3.1 or 3.2 and do it. You should make your choice until the end of this week and email me about it. The deadline for your report (1-2 pages typed text explaining what you did and you found) is Monday of week 10.
  • Tuesday, November 12: Problem solving session.
  • Wednesday, November 13: The second derivative test. Section 3.3. New homework!
  • Friday, November 15: Optimization examples. Section 3.3. We had quiz today; here are the solutions.
  • Monday, November 18: More of optimization examples. Theorems about functions. Sections 3.3 and 3.4. We will have MIDTERM on Friday!!! Please find review problems here.
  • Tuesday, November 19: Problem solving session.
  • Wednesday, November 20: Midterm review. Please find answers to review problems here. New homework! (due on 12/4)
  • Friday, November 22: MIDTERM. Here are the solutions.
  • Monday, November 25: Limits at infinity. Section 3.5.
  • Tuesday, November 26: Limits and derivatives: L'Hospital Rule. Section 3.6.
  • Wednesday, November 27: Some examples. Sections 3.4-3.6.
  • Friday, November 29: Thanksgiving.
  • Monday, December 2: Model of breathing. Sections 1.9 and 3.9. We will have last QUIZ on Wednesday!!! Please find review problems for the final here.
  • Tuesday, December 3: Problem solving session.
  • Wednesday, December 4: More on model of breathing. Section 3.9. Here are the solutions for quiz.
  • Friday, December 5: Review. Please find answers to review problems here.
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