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Fall 2004

Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences

by Hoffmann and Bradley 8th edition.

Week

Sections

Topic

August 30

 

Introduction

 

 

Class cancelled Frances

September 6

 

1.1-1.4

 

Pre-Calculus: functions, graphs, linear functions, functional models

 

1.5, 1.6 limits and continuity

Sept. 13

 

2.1, 2.2

 

derivative, techniques of differentiation

 

2.3 product and quotient rules, higher-order differentiation

Sept. 20

 

2.4

 

the chain rule

 

2.5, 2.6 marginal analysis and approximations, summary

Sept. 27

 

3.1

 

increasing and decreasing functions, relative extrema

 

Exam 1  

October 4

 

3.2

 

concavity and points of inflection

 

3.3 curve sketching

Oct. 11

 

3.4, 3.5

 

Optimization, Additional applied optimization, summary

 

4.1 Exponential functions

Oct. 18

 

4.2

 

Logarithmic functions

 

4.3 Differentiation of exponential and logarithmic functions

Oct.25

 

4.4

 

additional models, summary

 

Exam 2  

10 

November 1

 

5.1

 

anti-differentiation: the definite integral

 

5.2 integration by substitution

11 

Nov. 8

 

5.3

 

the definite integral and the fundamental theorem of calculus

 

5.4 additional applications to business and economics

12 

Nov. 15

 

5.5

 

additional applications to the life and social sciences, summary

 

6.1 integration by parts, integral tables.  page 454, example 6.1.4: integral of Ln(x)

13 

Nov. 22

 

6.2

 

introduction to differential equations.  page 469, example 6.2.5, summary

 

Thursday School closed  

14 

Nov. 29

 

Exam 3

 

 

 

7.1 functions of several variables

15 

December 6

 

7.2

 

partial derivatives

 

7.3 Optimizing functions of two variables, summary

16 

Dec. 13

 

Final Exam Tuesday  9:15-11:55pm emphasizes on sections 3.5, 4.2, 4.3, chapters 5, 6, and 7)

 

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