Math V46A Start Page, Spring 2008

Introduction and Announcements

Welcome to the start page for Math V46A (Applied Calculus I) at Ventura College. Michael Bowen (email) will be teaching this course during the spring 2008 semester.

Important note: This web page is not a substitute for attending class; regular attendance is an expectation of this course. Modifications to homework assignments, and other important news announced in class, may not appear on this page for several days. You are still responsible for all assignments and in-class announcements even if they do not appear here! If you wish to verify information on this page, please contact the instructor.

Homework Club (Office Hours) During Finals Week

• Monday 5 May 2008: 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Tutorial Center (first floor of LRC building)
• Wednesday 7 May 2008: 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Tutorial Center (first floor of LRC building)
• Saturday 10 May 2008: 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in room SCI-229 (park by the gym to avoid the swap meet traffic)
• Monday 12 May 2008: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in room SCI-229
• Tuesday 13 May 2008: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in room SCI-352

Final Examination

Date/time:  Monday 12 May 2008 at 5:00 p.m.

Be sure that your big party to celebrate the end of finals occurs after the appropriate date. Requests for administration of early or late finals that require the instructor to reschedule his work or make a special trip to campus are subject to a deduction of points, regardless of the reason for the request.

Grading Status

Check whether final grades are posted yet for your course.

Current Assignments

• These are listed in reverse chronological order.
• Note: "EOO" (every other odd) means to do problems
  1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49, 53, 57, 61, etc.
• Note: Please do "E.C." (extra credit) problems on a separate sheet of paper from the regular assignment.

Due Date	§	Title	Problems	E.C.
12 May 2008	Final Examination Recommended study problems suggested at right Exam starts at 5:00 p.m.		(For students with minimal study time) Page 433: 1–9 ODD; 19–25 ODD; 33–41 ODD; 47; 49 Page 483: 5–9 ODD; 17–29 ODD
			(For students with additional study time) The above plus Even-numbered problems from the ranges of the Chapter 6 and 7 homework assignments
12 May 2008	7-3	Integration by Parts	7–19 ODD	—
	7-4	Integration Using Tables	1–37 EOO	—
5 May 2008	Chapters 4–5 Test		Click to download this exam (PDF)	—
	6-2	Integration by Substitution	1–39 EOO	—
	6-3	Differential Equations; Growth and Decay	(No assignment)	—
	6-4	The Definite Integral	1; 3; 17–27 ODD	—
	6-5	The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus	5–39 ODD; 41(A)–47(A) ODD	68
28 Apr 2008	5-5	Implicit Differentiation	5–29 EOO	—
	5-6	Related Rates	(No assignment)	—
	6-1	Antiderivatives and Indefinite Integrals	1–21 EOO; 39–73 EOO	—
21 Apr 2008	5-2	Exponential Functions and Their Derivatives	9–41 EOO	—
	5-3	Logarithmic Functions and Their Derivatives	1–37 EOO; 53; 55; 57; plus any ONE of the word problems 69–72 OR 77–79 OR 81–84	—
	5-4	Chain Rule: Elasticity of Demand	(No assignment)	—
14 Apr 2008	4-5	Optimization	1–37 EOO	—
	5-1	Graphing Rational Functions	5; 9; 13; 25–49 EOO; 73AC, 75B	—
7 Apr 2008	4-3	Graphing Rational Functions	5; 9; 13; 25–49 EOO; 73AC, 75B	—
	4-4	Absolute Maxima and Minima	1–25 ODD; 29–45 EOO	—
31 Mar 2008	4-1	First Derivative and Graphs	19–31 ODD; 39–49 ODD; 71–81 ODD	—
	4-2	Second Derivative and Graphs	7–19 ODD; 29–41 EOO; 65; 67	—
14–23 Mar 2008	No class (spring break)
12 Mar 2008	Chapter 3 Test Recommended study problems suggested at right		(For students with minimal study time) Page 216: 1–25 ODD; 33–45 ODD; 73; 75; 77; 83; 85; 91
			(For students with additional study time) The above plus Even-numbered problems from the ranges of the Chapter 3 homework assignments
10 Mar 2008	3-6	General Power Rule (Chain Rule)	7–55 ODD	—
	3-7	Marginal Analysis in Business and Economics	1–21 ODD	—
3 Mar 2008	3-4	Power Rule and Basic Differentiation Properties	1–47 ODD	—
	3-5	Derivatives of Products and Quotients	1–33 ODD	—
25 Feb 2008	3-3	The Derivative	3–27 ODD	—
20 Feb 2008	3-1	Introduction to Limits	Finish remainder of assignment: 1–63 ODD	—
	3-2	Continuity	(No assignment)	—
15–18 Feb 2008	No class (holiday)
11 Feb 2008	3-1	Introduction to Limits	1–11 ODD	—
6 Feb 2008	Chapter 1 & 2 Test Recommended study problems suggested at right		(For students with minimal study time) Page 70: 3–19 ODD; 23; 29; 31; 33; 37 (OK to use decimals in 37) Page 123: 1–15 ODD; 17ABCD; 19–35 ODD; 41–47 ODD; 53; 55
			(For students with additional study time) The above plus Even-numbered problems from the ranges of the Chapter 1 & 2 homework assignments
30 Jan 2008	2-3	Logarithmic Functions	1–41 EOO; 53–59 ODD; 71–77 ODD; 93; 95	102; 106
28 Jan 2008	2-2	Exponential Functions	1–13 EOO; 15–29 ODD; 43–51 ODD; 61; 63; 79	70; 76; 80
23 Jan 2008	1-4	Quadratic Functions	15–27 ODD	—
	2-1	Polynomial and Rational Functions	1–21 EOO; 25ABCD; 29ABCD; 47ABC; 49ABC; 51ABC	—
21 Jan 2008	No class (holiday)
14 Jan 2008	—	Syllabus Worksheet (obtain a copy)
	1-1	Functions	1–11 ODD; 19–43 ODD; 55–73 ODD;	83; 85; 88
	1-2	Elementary Functions: Graphs and Transformations	1–41 ODD	—
	1-3	Linear Functions and Straight Lines	1–49 EOO	—

Future Assignments

• These are tentative assignments that have not yet been given a due date. The instructor may make changes to this list from time to time.
• Students must not rely on printed versions of this list; instead, they should check the live online version periodically for possible updates. Students who work ahead and complete one or more assignments in advance are taking a risk that the assignment(s) may change before the due date, in which case the advice in the preceding sentence is particularly applicable.
• In any case, students are responsible for completing the assignments as finalized in the Current Assignments section above, and should not expect to earn extra credit for completing tentatively assigned exercises that are later modified or removed from this list.
• (Assignments to be determined)

Course Handouts and Study Aids

The documents listed below are available for viewing or download. Please read the following bullets carefully before selecting any documents.

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• Documents in HTML format are best for on-screen reading. Although these can usually be printed, they are not specifically designed to be printer-friently. Thus, the formatting may be odd in some cases, depending on the combination of software and printer, and text may spill over the margins onto two or more pages.
• Documents in DOC format were created using Microsoft® Word. If this software is installed on your computer, we suggest that you use it to view these documents. If you do not have this software, you can still view Word documents if you first download the Word Viewer. This is free software from Microsoft that will permit you to open (but not modify) documents created using any of the most recent versions of MS Word.
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• Handouts links
  • Course Information:  (HTML)  |  (PDF)
  • Course Requirements and Grading, Side 1:  (HTML)  |  (PDF)
  • Course Requirements and Grading, Side 2:  (HTML)  |  (PDF)
  • Tips for Success:  (HTML)  |  (PDF)
  • Standards of Student Conduct and Classroom Rules  (HTML)  |  (PDF)
  • Syllabus Worksheet:  (DOC)  |  (PDF)
  • Instructor's Schedule (PDF; not really a handout; this is a copy of the printed schedule that appears on the instructor's office door)
• Study aids links
  • Multiplication Tables:  (DOC)  |  (PDF)
  • Divisibility Rules:  (DOC)  |  (PDF)
  • Sieve of Eratosthenes (PDF) with directions (finds prime numbers) (HTML)
  • Powers of Ten Tutorial (off-site; requires Java™ Runtime Environment [free download] to be installed and enabled on your computer):  (HTML)
  • Translating English Phrases Into Algebraic Expressions:  (DOC)  |  (PDF)
  • Multilingual Vocabulary for Mathematics (possibly helpful for students whose first language is not English):  (HTML)
  • Basic Algebra Review:  (DOC)  |  (PDF)
  • Basic Geometry Review:  (PPT)  |  (PDF)
  • Transformations of Functions (may require downloading and installation of free software to view all portions; see the page itself for details):  (HTML)

Will You Succeed or Fail in Mathematics?

This checklist is adapted from a handout prepared by math and philosophy instructor Steve Thomassin. It will allow you to compare your approach to a mathematics course to the approaches taken by successful … and unsuccessful … students.

Attribute Type	Predictor of Success	Predictor of Failure
Attitude	Focus on things that are under your control.	Blame things that are out of your control (the text, the instructor, or "the system") for your difficulties.
	Be optimistic. Believe that you can do it.	Be pessimistic. Convince yourself that you will fail.
	Be positive. Find ways to make math interesting and fun.	Be negative. Find ways to make math dull and painful.
	Be open. See the uses, power, patterns, and magic of mathematics.	Be closed. Blind yourself to math's uses and its practical and esthetic value.
	Be practical. Make yourself aware of the doors that passing each math class opens to you.	Be impractical. Ignore the doors that open when you pass a math class.
Class Work	Attend every class. Aim for perfect attendance, even if you already know it all.	Be absent often. Dig a hole so deep that you cannot climb out except by dropping the course.
	Be focused. Concentrate on the math topic at hand.	Be mentally elsewhere. Daydream. Talk. Distract and annoy neighboring students.
	Take good notes. Solve problems along with the instructor.	Avoid participating in the discussion. Just watch the instructor.
	Be inquisitive. Ask questions so that the instructor knows what you would like to learn more about.	Be uninterested. Make the instructor guess what it is that you might be confused about.
Homework	Be regular. Always do at least some homework before the next class, and finish by the due date.	Be sporadic. Do homework only when it easily fits your schedule.
	Invest time. Spend double to triple the amount of in-class time.	Invest little time. Spend less time doing homework than you spend in class.
	Review notes; read text; do all assigned problems (maybe even more), and check the answers.	Ignore notes and text explanations; try a few problems, and don't bother checking to see if they are right.
Getting Help	When needed, take advantage of all opportunities: study groups, tutors, instructor office hours.	Even when lost, never seek assistance.