Mathematics 104, Fall 2008

Announcements

MIDTERM
The midterm will be held from 7:30 to 9:00 pm on Wednesday, October 22, in McDonnell A02.

TEXTBOOK

The text is Thomas' Calculus -- Early Transcendentals, Including Second-Order Differential Equations -- 11th. ed., Part One.

We recommend Adrian Banner's The Calculus Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Excel at Calculus available here. This site also has free videos of Adrian's excellent review sessions for MAT 104 and MAT 103.

Is MAT 104 the right course for me?

See Choosing a Calculus Course.

Weekly Review Sessions

Jared Speck conducts weekly review sessions Wednesday evenings in Fine 314 from 7:00 to 9:00. Many students have said that they learned more from these reviews than from anything else, so profit from them!

McGraw Center Study Halls

On the third floor of Frist, directly across from the McGraw Center office, there will be Study Halls Sunday--Wednesday from 7:30 to 10:30 pm. Here you will find people who can help you with your homework or anything you did not fully understand in class.

Reviewing quizzes and homework

Any athletic coach will tell you that it is essential to correct errors before they become ingrained habits. When a quiz or homework is returned, don't just look at the grade and toss it aside. Take a few minutes to find your error and work the problem correctly. If there is something you don't understand, ask your teacher or grader. This will do more to improve your performance than spending twice as long in general studying.

Please be aware that the homework problems tend to be easier than the problems you will encounter on quizzes and exams, so just doing the homework is not adequate preparation for this course. This web page contains many sample quizzes and exams with answers. You should try a fair number of them, working them out fully and then checking your answers. It is more helpful if you this together with one or two other students in the course.

Course Documents

Recent Final Exams with Answers

Weekly Help

Substitution and integration by parts
- Substitution and trigonometric cofunctions
- Overview of integration techniques (In 5 of "Partial Fractions", dx+f means the number d times x plus f.)
- Quizzes with answers The quizzes for the next two weeks also have some relevant problems for substitution and integration by parts.
- integration quiz (including some partial fractions) with answers
Partial fractions
- Help with partial fractions
- Quizzes with answers See also next week's quizzes.
Trigonometric substitution
- Quizzes with answers
- See also problem 1 in this second integration quiz and the answer. (This quiz has some questions on volumes, a week 11 topic for us.)
- methods of integration review: 49 integration problems with answers
- Portions of review video 1 and review video 3.
Improper integrals
- The very useful ~ notation is explained in Functions asymptotic to each other
- Overview of improper integrals.
- Quizzes with answers (one question on each quiz concerns improper integrals).
- 43 problems on improper integrals with answers
- Portions of review video 4 and review video 5.
Tests for convergence of series
- Succinct series
- Overview of sequences and series.
- Quizzes with answers (Skip problems with alternating signs until next week.)
- 10 questions on geometric series, sequences, and l'Hôpital's rule with answers
- 57 series problems with answers
- series and review quiz with answers
- Again, portions of review video 4 and review video 5.
Alternating series, absolute convergence
- Quizzes with answers
- See also problem 1 on this series quiz and the answer. (This quiz also has some questions on Taylor series, a week 8 topic for us.)
- Once again, portions of review video 4 and review video 5.
- midterm review:
  - Fall 04 midterm with answers. (Note that the factor of 2 in the answer to probelm 4 is mistaken.)
  - Spring 03 midterm with answers
  - Fall 02-03 midterm with answers
Power series
- Since the new text puts power series before Taylor series, there are no old quizzes with answers appropriate for this week.
- Review video 5.
Taylor series
- Quizzes with answers
- More quizzes with answers
- Problems on Taylor series and Taylor polynomials with remainder, with answers
- questions about Taylor series with answers
- series review: series quiz with answers
- Taylor series animations. Note the radical difference between finite and infinite radius of convergence.
- Again, review video 5.
Complex numbers
First order differential equations
- No quizzes with answers are available, but see the Recent Final Exams with Answers.
Second order differential equations
- No quizzes with answers are available, but see the Recent Final Exams with Answers.
Volume, length, surface area
- Quizzes with answers
- area, volume, and length problems with answers
- shell method animations
- Portions of review video 1 and review video 3.

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These documents were written by Louis-Pierre Arguin, Adrian Banner, Jennifer Johnson, Edward Nelson, Jake Rasmussen, Ricardo Saenz, Andrew Snowden, Frank Swenton, Andrew Török, and others.

A note to the person in charge of a future MAT 104 course.