MAT 125 Calculus A Fall 2009
Julia Viro

Generalities	Instructor	Schedule	Assignments	Exams	SOLAR	Blackboard

Tentative schedule

Week of	Contents	Sections
8/31-9/4	Functions and their graphs. Even and odd functions, increasing and decreasing functions. Operations on functions: sum, difference, product, quotient, composition.	1.1, 1.2, 1.3, Appendix C
9/7-9/11	Basic elementary functions: polynomials, rational, power, trigonometric and exponential functions. Inverse functions. Logarithms. Inverse trigonometric functions: arcsine, arccosine, arctangent.	1.2, 1.5, 1.6, 3.6
9/14-9/18	The limit of a function. Limit laws.	2.1, 2.2, 2.3
9/21-9/25	Continuity. Squeeze theorem. Limits involving infinity. Calculating technique for limits.	2.4, 2.5
9/28-10/2 9/29 correction day (Monday schedule)	The derivative and its geometrical meaning. Tangent line. Derivative as velocity.	2.6, 2.7, 2.8,
10/5-10/9	Rates of change in the real world. Linear approximation. Derivatives of higher orders.	3.8, 3.9
10/12-10/16	Review for Midterm 1. Midterm 1 is on Thursday 10/15 in class	1.2-1.6, 2.1-2.8, 3.9
10/19-10/23	Derivatives of polynomials and exponential functions. Product and quotient rules. Derivatives of trigonometric functions.	3.1, 3.2, 3.3
10/26-10/30	Chain rule. Implicit differentiation. Derivatives of logarithmic and inverse trigonometric functions.	3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
11/2-11/6	Newton's method.	4.7
11/9-11/13	Review for Midterm 2, Midterm 2 is on Thursday 11/12 in class	3.1-3.7
11/16-11/20	Maximum and minimum values. Graphing.	4.2, 4.3
11/23-11/24 11/25-11/29 Thanksgiving break	Related rates.	4.1, 4.7
11/30-12/4	Indeterminate forms and L'Hopital's rule. Optimization.	4.5, 4.6
12/7-12/11	Review for Final.
?day 12/? 8:00-10:30am	Final exam