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

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