Jen Paulhus, Ph.D.

Calculus I

email: jpaulhus@mtholyoke.edu
Office Hours:
     Mondays 4:30-5:30 PM
     Wednesdays 10:30-11:30 AM
     Thursdays 2:30-3:30 PM
     Fridays 9:30-10:30 AM
     or by appointment

Class Meeting: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 1:45-3:00 PM

Text: Calculus 6th ed, Hughes-Hallet, Gleason, et al.
Material Covered: Chapters 1-5

Syllabus

Homework Assignments     Quiz Topics

Review questions on precalculus material, and  solutions

Daily Topics

Class Date Section and Pages Word List Desmos Link
  Sept. 4 1.1 (pgs 2-6) function, domain, range, linear function, difference quotient, increasing and decreasing functions
  Sept. 6 1.2, 1.3 (pgs 12-16, 23-25) exponential function, exponential growth and decay, inverse function Inverses
  Sept. 9 1.4, 1.5 (pgs 29-32, 36-40) natural logarithm, properties of logarithms (pg 30), radians, sine, cosine, and tangent functions
  Sept. 11 1.5 (pgs 40-41) inverse trig functions (arcsin and arctan), power function, polynomial, rational function Trig Functions
  Sept. 13 1.3, 1.6 (pgs 21-23, 45-50) horizontal and vertical asymptotes, shift and stretch rules (box on pg 21), composition function Asymptotes
  Sept. 16 1.7 (pgs. 53-55, 57-58) even and odd functions, informal definition of continuous (pg 53), Intermediate Value Theorem, idea of the limit of a function (top of page 58)
  Sept. 18 1.8 (pgs. 58-64) definition of limit (bottom of page 58), properties of limits, one-sided limits, limits at infinity, formal definition of continuous
  Sept. 20 2.1-2.2 (pgs. 76, 79, 83-85) average velocity, instantaneous velocity, derivative of a function at a point,, differentiable function

Homework Assignments

Homework assignments are due on Gradescope by 1:30 PM on the date listed below.

Show your work on the homework. Answers with no work will receive zero points.

HW Due date Problems
# 1 Sept. 6 Homework 1
#2 Sept. 10 Homework 2
#3 Sept. 13 Homework 3
#4 Sept. 17 Homework 4
#4 Sept. 20 Homework 5

Quiz Topics

Quizzes will be posted on Gradescope at 10AM on the day listed under "Posting Date". They are due by 10 PM on the day listed under "Due Date" (36 hours after they are posted). You will have 30 minutes from the time you first access the quiz to complete it.

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Quiz Posting Date Due Date Section(s)
# 1 Sept. 10 at 10 AM Sept. 11 at 10 PM review problems and 1.1
# 2 Sept. 17 at 10 AM Sept. 18 at 10 PM 1.2-1.6
# 3 Sep. 24 Sep. 25 1.7, 1.8
# 4 Sep. 28 Sep. 29 3.5, 3.6
# 5 Oct. 5 Oct. 6 3.7, 4.1, 4.2
# 6 Oct. 12 Oct. 13 3.8, 4.3, 4.4
# 7 Nov. 9 Nov. 10 4.9, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2
# 8 Nov. 16 Nov. 17 7.3, 7.4, 7.6
# 9 Nov. 30 Dec. 1 8.1
#10 Dec. 7 Dec. 8 6.1, 6.2, 6.3