CUSP 124 Updated Schedule


Date	Topics	Readings	Assignments

1/4	Welcome; the real number system; functions	Stewart, § 1.1
1/5	Lab 1: Working with functions	Stewart, § 1.1

1/9	Functions, cont’d	Stewart, § 1.2	HW 1 due
1/11	Snow day!
1/12	Limits	Stewart, § 1.3, 1.4

1/16	Another snow day		Podcast 1 due
1/18	Discontinuities and singularities; Infinities	Stewart, § 1.5, 1.6	HW 2 due
1/19	Lab 3: To infinity and beyond

1/23	Early notions of the tangent	Edwards, pp. 122–127	HW 3 due; Podcast 2 due
1/25	Calculating tangents	Stewart § 2.1, pp. 73–76
1/26	Lab 4: Going off on a tangent		Podcast 3 due

1/30	The derivative: the difference quotient	Stewart, § 2.1	HW 4 due
2/1	Change and the derivative	Stewart, § 2.2
2/2	Lab 5: Approximation by finite differences		Podcast 4 due

2/6	Midterm review		HW 5 due
2/8	Midterm
2/9	Lab 6: Archimedes and the birth of calculus?

2/13	Properties of the derivative	Stewart, § 2.3
2/15	Products and Quotients	Stewart, § 2.4
2/16	Lab 7: Working on the chain gang	Stewart, § 2.5	Podcast 5 due

2/20	Applications I: related rates	Stewart, § 2.7	HW 6 due
2/22	Related rates, cont’d
2/23	Linear approximation and differentials	Stewart, § 2.8	Podcast 6 due

2/27	Exponentials	Stewart, § 3.1
3/1	Derivatives of special functions: exponentials and logarithms	Stewart, § 3.2, 3.3
3/2	Lab 8: Minima & maxima; sensitivity analysis	Stewart, § 4.1

3/6	Exponential growth & decay	Stewart, § 3.4	HW 8 due; Podcast 7 due
3/8	l’Hôpital’s Rule; what the derivative tells us about the shapes of graphs	Stewart, § 3.7, 4.3
3/9	Review for final		Podcast 8 due

3/13	Final Exam