dra                                                                                   Table of topics and assignments 

Please check this page often, including the comments column, where I will record announcements.

In the table below you see only the offine suggested assignments (which are not collected). Some changes in this table might occur depending on our coverage of the material.

For the online assignments please go to fiu.mylabsplus.com  (see syllabus for instructions to access the system).

LA for the class: Daniel Gonzalez dgonz293@fiu.edu

LA help-time outside class: TuTh 3:00-5:00pm outside or inside DM 409A

Date Topics covered  (Offline) Suggested Assignment Comments
May 16 5.1 Angles in degrees, in radians
5.2 Right Triangle Trig and basic identities
Pop-Quiz0
5.1 #1 through 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 124-126
5.2 #1 through 37, 63 through 73, 75, 77, 79, 98, 99, 100, 101
The offline suggested assignments will not be collected for credit.
Be sure that in each group of exercises you are able to solve
on your own
a couple of them and then you can move on to the next group.
May 18 5.3 Trig functions of any angle
5.4 Trig functions (properties)
 Worksheet 05/18
5.3 # 1 through 85, 87, 89, 91, 93, 99, 101, 103, 107, 111, 115
5.4 # 1 through 43, 45, 57, 59, 61, 63
Solution key for worksheet 05/18
Do also: Chapter 5 Mid-Chapter Check Point: Exercises 9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 30
May 20 5.5 Graphs of sin and cos functions
5.6 Graph of tangent, cot, sec, csc
Pop-Quiz1
5.5 # 1 through 59, 61, 63, 67, 69, 85, 86, 117,122

5.6 # 1 through 11, 45, 52, 59, 65, 89, 99, 101

Solution key of pop-quiz 1
 
May 23 5.7 Inverse trig functions




5.7 # 1 through 71, 85 through 91,116, 117, 119, 121 (do after exam 1)



Exam 1 on Wednesday, May 25, covers sections 5.1 through 5.6 (note the change).  Sections 5.7 and 5.8 will be covered on Exam 2.
No calculator (of any kind) will be allowed on Exam 1.
Possible theoretical topics for Exam 1:
proving one of the trigonometric Pythagorean identities (see top of p. 539 and bottom of page 538);
proving the legth of a circular arc or the area of the sector formulas.
May 25 Review for Exam 1
Exam 1- 75 minutes exam
Solution key for Exam 1
Practice Exam 1 (with answers) from Prof. Nadel;
From practice exam 2, do only pbs. 1-4;
Practice true-false + 2 more problems.  Answer key
As there is no calculator allowed, answers in calculator ready form are acceptable
(e.g. for pb 5 in practice exam 1).
May 27 5.8 Applications


6.1 Trig. identities
Worksheet 05/27
5.8 # 1 through 11, 43, 45, 49 (in this section leave answers in calculator-ready form), 79, 81

6.1 # 1 – 60, 92

 
May 30 No class. Memorial Day.    
June 1 Euler formula
6.2 Sum and difference formulas
6.3 Double angle, half-angle formulas
Worksheet 06/01
6.2 #  1 – 31, 39 – 51, 52, 63, 99, 103

6.3 #  1 – 31, 37 – 42, 47, 48, 55a,b,  57a, b

Solution key of worksheet 06/01
 
June 3 6.4 Sum to prod, prod to sum

6.5 Trig. equations
6.4 #1-22

6.5 #1-116, 123, 124, 147, 149
Exam 2 on June 8th covers sections 5.7. 5.8, 6.1 through 6.5 (still no calculator of any kind).
Possible theoretical topics for exam 2: proofs of the sum formulas from the Euler formula;
proof of the difference formulas from the sum formulas; proofs of the double angle formulas;
proof of product to sum formulas; proof of the identity arcsin x + arccos x = pi/2.
June 6 7.1 Law of sines
7.2 Law of cosines
Worksheet 06/06
7.1 #  1-29, 39, 47, 50, 51, 57 (do after Exam 2)
7.2 #  1 – 23, 39, 41, 47 (do after Exam 2)
The worksheet 06/06 is a homework due Monday, June 3

Extra office hours for Exam 2 on Tuesday, June 7, 10:00am-12:00noon.
June 8 Review for Exam 2
Exam 2- 75 minutes exam
Solution key for Exam 2
From Prof. Nadel's practice exam 2, do pbs. 5, 6, 7
and all problems in practice exam 3
 
June 10 7.3 Polar coords

Worksheet 06/10
7.3 # 1 – 73, 79, 80, 81


Solution key of page 1 of worksheet 06/10
Problem 6 of worksheet 06/10 is a homework that is due on Monday, June 20.
(I extend the due date for it).
June 13 7.4 Graphs of polar equations
7.4 # 1 – 9, 15, 21, 23, 25, 27, 33, 34

In this table, in the last column you can see your percentage thus far (excluding the online assignments). In the first column there are your first 5 digits of Panther ID (in increasing order).
Drop deadline is Monday, June 13.
June 15

Review for exam 3
Worksheet - review
Partial answer key



From Prof. Nadel's practice exam 3, do pb. 4 all parts and all problems in practice exam 4
Exam 3 on Friday, June 17th, covers sections 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
(a scientific calculator is required for this exam).
Possible theoretical topics for exam 3: proof for the law of sines; proof for the law of cosines.

Office hours on Tuesday, June 16, 10:00am-12:00noon.
June 17 More Review
Exam 3- 75 minutes exam

Solution key for Exam 3
 
June 20 7.5 Complex numbers in polar form
Worksheet 06/20
7.6 Vectors
7.5 # 1-75

7.6 #  1 - 54, 61 – 64
Final exam on June 24, full class time. Comprehensive exam.
Review all previous exams and worksheets, plus sections 7.5, 7.6.

Theoretical topics: the topics from the previous exams, plus:
(1) deriving DeMoivre's identity from Euler formula
(2) getting formulas for cos(3x), sin(3x) out of DeMoivre's identity, or using addition formulas
No calculator (of any kind) will be allowed on the exam. You can leave answers in calculator ready form when necessary and I will try to give you mostly problems involving nice angles.
June 22 Review for final exam Final exam review problems
Additional review problems


The problems on the left are recommended departmental problems to study for the final.
Your exam will contain some multiple choice questions, but the majority will not be multiple choice.
Besides the problems on the left, you should review all previous exam and worksheets.

Office hours for Final exam: Thursday (June 23) and Friday (June 24) 10am-11:45am
June 24 Final Exam -- full class time
Comprehensive exam
  In this excel file you can find your score on the final exam (out of 150 pts), and you grade for the class
(last column). I used your first 5 digits of Panther ID (they are in increasing order).
Because some of you did not pick up your exam 3, I included those scores as well.
Have a good Summer!