Lecture Pace

Math 171-01 - Calculus I

Week 1 Aug 23-Aug 26
Course information, Review, Estimating limits numerically and graphically
Chap P & Sec 1.2
Week 2 Aug 30-Sep 2
Finding limits analytically Sec 1.3
Week 3 Sep 7-Sep 9
One-sided limits, Continuity, Infinite Limits
Sec 1.4, 1.5
Week 4 Sep 13-Sep 16
Formal definition of limit, Intro to tangent lines and the derivative Sec 1.2, 2.1
Week 5 Sep 20-Sep 23
Basic differentiation rules, Test 1
Sec 2.2, 2.3
Week 6 Sep 27-Sep 30
Higher order derivatives, Rates of change, Chain rule, Implicit Diff Sec 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Week 7 Oct 4-Oct 7
Related rates, Extrema on closed intervals, Mean value theorem Sec 2.6, 3.1, 3.2
Week 8 Oct 11-Oct 14
1st & 2nd derivative tests, Limits at infinity Sec 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Week 9 Oct 18-Oct 21
Curve sketching, Optimization, Test 2 Sec 3.6, 3.7
Week 10 Oct 25-Oct 28
Linearizations, Newton's method, Differentials Sec 3.8, 3.9
Week 11 Nov 1-Nov 4
Antiderivatives, Area, Riemann sums Sec 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Week 12 Nov 8-Nov 11
Definite integrals, 1st fundamental theorem, Area between curves
Sec 4.3, 4.4, 7.1
Week 13 Nov 15-Nov 18
Substitution, Trapezoid rule, Test 3 Sec 4.5, 4.6
Week 14 Nov 22-Nov 24
Simpson's rule, Disk method, No class on Nov 25
Sec 4.6, 7.2
Week 15 Nov 29-Dec 2
Volumes by cross sections, Cylindrical shells, Center of mass, 1st Final Exam
Sec 7.2, 7.3, 7.6
Week 16 Dec 6-Dec 9
Center of mass, 2nd fundamental theorem Sec 7.6, 4.4
******* Wednesday, Dec 15
2nd Final Exam --- 1:00pm-2:50pm
 

*** November 12 is the last day to withdraw ***