Table of topics and assignments 

Textbook: Thomas’ Calculus, Early transcendentals, by Hass, Heil, Weir, 14th edition, with the MyLabsPlus access code (for online homework). All new textbooks sold in the FIU bookstore come with the MyLabsPlus access code. You could also buy just the MyLabsPlus access code (which gives electronic access to the textbook). ISBN for textbook + access code : 9780135430903;  ISBN for access code alone:  9780135420683 .

Learning Assistant (LA):  Jorge Izquierdo           Help Hours: Tuesdays, 3:00-4:30pm outside DM 409A and Thursdays, 11:10am-12:10 in GC 287B

Video-lectures: My lectures from Spring 2015 -- (a different textbook was used, but the material covered will be mostly the same)

Day# Date Topics Covered Suggested assignment Comments
0     Get the textbook with the MyLabsPlus (MLP) code and start your online assignments. Most of the problems in the suggested assignment recorded here are part of your online homework (which you must do). Occasionally, the suggested assignment may contain additional problems. Although these will not be collected, you are strongly advised to do them, as they can appear on exams
1 1/08 2.1 Rates of change and tangent lines
Worksheet 1/08
2.1 # 1,3,5,8,9,11,15,21,25,26 (as the online assignment)

Solutions of Pbs 1 and 2 from worksheet 1/08 (courtesy of Jorge)
 
2 1/10 2.2 Limit laws

2.2 # 1,5,10,12,23,29,43,51,56,57,61,63,74,79 (as online)

I have extended the deadline for the online hwk of section 2.1 to Monday, Jan. 14. If you did not score well on it, try it again.
The online assignment for section 2.2 has deadline Wednesday, Jan. 16, the one for 2.4 has deadline Monday, Jan. 24.
3 1/15 2.4 Limit computations
Worksheet 1/15
2.4 #1,4,8,11,15,17,21,27,37,39,41,48,49 (as online)
Solutions for Worksheet 1/15 (from Jorge)
Change in my office hours (effective immediately) - new hours:
Wednesdays 11:00am-1:00pm, Tuesdays, Thursdays 2:30-3:00pm, or by appointment.
Jorge's hours on Tuesdays are also shifted by half an hour.
4 1/17 2.6 Limits involving infinity; asymptotes
Worksheet 1/17
2.6 #1-27odd,35-43odd, 49, 57, 63-69odd, 75-81odd, 84, 87 (larger suggested assignment than online!)
Solutions for Worksheet 1/17 (written by Jorge)

5 1/22 2.5 Continuity

Worksheet 1/22
2.5 #1-29odd, 33,37,41,47,55,61,69-77odd
(larger suggested assignment than online!)
Jorge's solution for Worksheet 1/22
 
6 1/24 3.1 Derivative at a pt.
3.2 Derivative function
3.1 #3, 5, 9, 10, 13, 17, 21-27odd, 30, 34, 39 (as online)
3.2 #7, 11, 19, 23, 27-30 all, 31, 33, 35 39, 47, 49 (as online)
Paper and pencil homework for Chapter 2: Pbs. #2, 10, 19, 49, 51, 55, page 116 textbook (Ch. 2 Practice Exercises)
-- hand in by Tuesday, Jan. 29.
Follow the e-mail instructions for submission.
In class quiz on Tuesday, Jan. 29, covering Chapter 2.
7 1/29 3.3 Basic rules

Quiz 1

Worksheet 1/29
3.3. #1, 5, 7, 13, 17, 18, 21, 23, 25, 29, 31, 35, 37, 39, 43, 45, 49, 57 (as online)
Solution key of quiz 1

Jorge's solution for Worksheet 1/29 (with my adnotations)
The material in sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 is being covered in a slightly different order than the book,
so I extended the deadline for the online homework on all these sections to Monday Feb. 4.

No office hours on Wednesday, Jan. 30. I'll make it up with extra office hours before your first exam.
8 1/31 3.4 Derivative as rate of change 3.4. #1, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21 (as online) Exam 1 on Thursday, Feb. 07, covers sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4.
Proofs you need to know (one of these will be an exam question):
Proof of qudratic formula;
Proof of Theorem 7 in section 2.4;
Proof of the positive integer power rule (see bottom of page 138 in section 3.8);
Proof of product rule.
9 2/05 3.5 Deivatives of trig. functions
Worksheet 2/05
Review for Exam 1
3.5 #1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 12, 13, 19, 26, 40, 45 (as online) and 61, 63
(do the homework for this section after Exam 1)
Jorge's solution for Worksheet 2/05
Section 3.5 is not covered on Exam 1, but it will be covered on Exam 2.

Review session with Jorge: Wednesday, Feb. 6, 10-11am, in GC 275A.
After 11am, you are welcome to see me in DM 432B at my office hours, extended to 2pm tomorrow.
10 2/07 Exam 1 Solution key of Exam 1 Note the slightly later date for Exam 1 than in the syllabus
11 2/12 3.6 Chain Rule
Worksheet 2/12
3.6 #1-9odd, 14, 17, 19, 23, 24, 25, 29, 35, 37, 41, 45, 47, 55, 57, 61, 65, 77, 96, 101 (as online)
Jorge's solution for Worksheet 2/12
He is showing you very well the "chain"-part of chain rule.
Try to follow his way of laying up the steps of the computation.
 
12 2/14 3.7 Implicit Differentiation 3.7 # 1, 2, 6, 11, 14, 29, 31, 48* (slightly larger than online) Quiz 2 on Tuesday, Feb. 19, covers sections 3.3, 3.5, 3.6 (computation techniques for derivatives).
No questions from sections 3.4 or 3.7 on this quiz.
13 2/19 Quiz 2
More on 3.7
Worksheet 2/19
Jorge's solution key for Quiz 2
see above
Jorge's solution key for Worksheet 2/19
 
14 2/21 3.8 Deriv. of logs
and of inverse functions
3.8 # 1, 2, 5-17odd, 16, 21, 24, 27, 51, 63, 67, 71, 73, 89, 90, 92, 95 (slightly larger than online -- pb. 51 is added)  
15 2/26 3.9 Deriv. of inverse trig. functions

3.10 Related rates

Worksheet 2/26
3.9 # 21, 23, 25, 33, 34, 37, 41 (same as online)


3.10 # 1, 3, 5, 11, 13, 15, 20, 21, 23, 25, 27, 31, 33, 37, 45 (same as online)
Jorge's solution of worksheet 2/26
 
16 2/28 More on 3.10

3.11 Local lin. approximation

3.11 # 1, 2, 7, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 33, 35, 39, 43, 45, 47
(larger than online)
Exam 2 on Thursday, March 7, covers all sections between 3.5 and 3.11 (including these).
Possible theoretical questions (one of these will be on the exam).
getting the formulas for the derivative of sin x or cos x using the limit definition of the derivative (p. 154, 155 textbook);
getting the formulas for the derivative of tan x, sec x, cot x, csc x, as in example 5, p. 157 textbook;
use logarithmic differentiation to prove the general power rule for derivatives (p. 181 textbook);
use logarithmic differentiation to prove the quotient rule;
getting one of the formulas for the derivative of inverse trig. functions.
17 3/5 4.8 Antiderivatives


Review for Exam 2
4.8 # 1, 3, 7, 11, 15, 19-31odd, 36, 40, 39-61 odd, 54, 69, 83, 85, 86, 91, 93, 94, 97, 100, 105, 106, 107, 109, 113, 123, 125, 127 (approximately as online)
(Do 4.8  after exam 2)
Review session with Jorge: Wednesday, March 6, 10-11am, room GC 275A.

Office hours for Exam 2 (in DM 432B):
Monday, March 4, 1-3pm; Wednesday, March 6, 11am-2pm.
18 3/7 Exam 2

Solution key of Exam2
Assignment over Spring break:
Watch the following videos from Spring 2015 for coverage of anti-derivatives:
Video from 4/7/2015 -- starting with approximately 1:22
Video from 4/9/2015 -- the entire video
Then do as much as you can from the (online and suggessted) homework of section 4.8.
Have a good Spring break!

Here is the gradebook after exam 2
. (Sorry for the delay.)
In the last column is your grade in the class at this point. The column "Tot%" has your overall percentage
at this point.
19 3/19 More on 4.8
5.5 Integration by substitution
Worksheet 3/19

5.5 # 1, 3, 4, 7-11odd, 17-21all, 24, 25-43 odd, 55, 65, 71
(slightly larger than online)
 
20  3/21 4.1 Local and global extrema 4.1 #1-5odd, 11, 15, 21, 24, 25, 39, 40, 45-57odd, 75 (approximately as online) Quiz 3 on Tuesday, March 26, from sections 4.8 and 5.5
21 3/26 4.3 Graphing 1

Quiz 3
Worksheet 3/26
4.3 # 1-5odd, 11, 15-29odd, 33, 36, 37, 41, 43, 57, 71, 76, 83 (approximately as online)
Solution key for quiz 3
Final Exam will be on Thursday, April 25th, 5:00-7:00pm, in OE134.
22 3/28 4.4 Graphing 2
4.5 L'Hopital's rule
4.4 # 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, 17, 20, 35, 40, 41, 43, 54, 59, 81, 85, 93, 105 (as online)
4.5 # 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 13, 14, 33, 37, 41, 46, 51, 55, 59 (as online)
 
23 4/2 More on l'Hopital
Worksheet 4/02
   
24 4/4 4.6 Optimization 4.6 # 1-13 odd, 4, 12, 14, 21, 23, 33, 43, 44, 47, 63 (as online)  
25 4/9 More on optimization
11.1 Param. Curves
Worksheet 4/9
11.1 # 1, 6, 7, 9, 25, 29, 31, 33, 50* (as online) (do these after exam 3) Exam 3 on Tuesday, April 16, covers sections 4.8, 5.5, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6.
No theoretical topics (proofs) on this exam.
26 4/11 4.2 MVT 4.2 # 1, 2, 3, 10, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 54*, 56 (as online) (do these after exam 3) Office hours for Exam 3: Monday, April 15, 10am-3pm (in DM 432B);
Review session with Jorge: Monday, April 15, 10-11am, room DM 163.
27 4/16 Exam 3 Solution key of exam 3  
28 4/18 Review for final    

Final Exam: on Thursday, April 25th, 5:00-7:00pm, in OE134.