Calculus Students 2005 - 2006
Calculus Objectives
Review and Preview 1. Functions and Their Graphs
2. Types of Functions; Shifting and Scaling
3. Graphing Calculators and Computers
4. Principles of Problem Solving
5. A Preview of Calculus
Limits and Rates of Change 6. The Tangent and Velocity Problem
7. The Limit of a Function
8. Calculating Limits Using Limit Properties
9. The Precise Definition of Limit
10. Continuity
11. Limits at Infinity; Horizontal Asymptotes
12. Tangents, Velocities, and Other Rates of Change
Derivatives 13. Differentiation Formulae
14. Rates of Change in the Natural and Social Sciences
15. Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions
16. The Chain Rule
17. Implicit Differentiation
18. Higher Derivatives
19. Related Rates
20. Differentials; Linear and Quadratic Approximations
21. Newton's Method
Inverse Functions: Exponential, Logarithmic, and Inverse Trigonometric Functions 22. Exponential Functions and Their Derivatives
23. Inverse Functions
24. Logarithmic Functions
25. Derivatives of Logarithmic Functions
26. Exponential Growth and Decay
27. Inverse Trigonometric Functions
28. Hyperbolic Functions
29. Indeterminate Forms and L'Hopital's Rule
The Mean Value Theorem and Curve Sketching 30. Maximum and Minimum Values
31. The Mean Value Theorem
32. Monotonic Functions
33. Concavity and Points of Inflection
34. Curve Sketching
35. Graphing with Calculus and Calculators
36. Applied Maximum and Minimum Problems
37. Applications to Economics
38. Antiderivatives
Integrals 39. Sigma Notation
40. Area
41. The Definite Integral
42. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
43. The Substitution Method
44. The Logarithm Defined as an Integral