MAT 125

Syllabus

Revised on March 7 to reflect cancellations

The following is a tentative syllabus for MAT 125. Lecture dates are given for Tu-Th lectures.

	Lectures	Dates	Topic	Section	Comments
Week 1	1	Jan 24	Functions and graphs - basics	1.1, 1.2
Week 1	2	Jan 26	New functions from old	1.3
Week 2	3	Jan 31	Exponential function	1.5
Week 2	4	Feb 2	Inverse functions; logarithm	1.6
Week 3	5	Feb 7	Notion of limit	2.1, 2.2	Wed 2/8: Early exam
Week 3	6	Feb 9	Limit laws	2.3
Week 4	7	Feb 14	Continuous functions	2.4
Week 4	8	Feb 16	Review for Midterm1
Week 5	9	Feb 21	Limits involving infinities	2.5	Mon 2/20: Midterm 1
Week 5	10	Feb 23	Velocities and other rates of change	2.6
Week 6	11	Feb 28	Derivative	2.7
Week 6	12	Mar 2			Class cancelled due to snowstorm
Week 7	13	Mar 7	Equation of tangent line and linear approximation	3.8
Week 7	14	Mar 9	What does derivative say about f?	2.8, 2.9
Week 8	15	Mar 14	Derivatives of polynomials and exponential functions	3.1
Week 8	16	Mar 16	Product and quotient rule	3.2
Week 9	17	Mar 21	Review for Midterm 2		Tu 3/21: Midterm 2
Week 9	18	Mar 23	Derivatives of trigonometric functions	3.4
Week 10	19	Mar 28	Chain rule	3.5
Week 10	20	Mar 30	Implicit differentiation	3.6
Week 11	21	Apr 4	Derivative of inverse functions. Derivative of log	3.7
Week 11	22	Apr 6	Max and min values	4.2
Spring Break
Week 12	23	Apr 18	Shapes of curves	4.3
Week 12	24	Apr 20	L'Hospital's rule	4.5
Week 13	25	Apr 25	Optimization problems
Week 13	26	Apr 27
Week 14	27	May 2	Antiderivatives
Week 14	28	May 4	Review for the final exam
		May 15	Final Exam