Monthly Schedule

(Honors AP Calculus, Period A)

F 2/1/13

HW due: Finish §8-6 #18, which (cough, cough) few students had finished yesterday. Remember, you need both a shells-based solution and a washers-based solution. Also write §8-6 #14, 15, and §8-7 #22. If you have time, please do #14 and #15 with both a shells-based approach and a washers-based approach. However, if time is short, you may omit one of the methods.

 

M 2/4/13

Special funutational class. No additional HW is due today.

 

T 2/5/13

HW due:

1. Revisit the shells version of #15, which we did in class yesterday. Recall that when the integral is set up as


we obtain an answer that is off by a factor of –1. This occurs even though r = 4 – x clearly implies that dr = –dx. That is a true fact and is not the error. Where is the error? We couldn’t find it yesterday, but that is only because we didn’t spend enough time thinking clearly. Write a paragraph in which you elucidate the situation and explain the mistake. Note: Saying we made a sign error is not enough. Saying that we should use dx instead of (–1)dx is not enough. You need to find exactly where the mistake is and explain how we could avoid it in the future. There is learning to be obtained here!

2. Write §8-5 #20abc.

 

W 2/6/13

HW due: Read §9-2; write §8-7 #14, 16, §8-9 #11, 14, 15.

 

Th 2/7/13

HW due: Read §9-3; write §9-2 #5 and #9 (using full work, explicitly showing u, du, v, and dv), §9-3 #3-21 mo3. For the §9-3 problems, you may use the “full work” technique of §9-2, the abbreviated work of §9-3, or another method, as long as you show your work clearly.

Note: Work is required for all of these problems, since you can produce the answers in an instant with wolframalpha.com. It is strongly recommended that you use differentiation, not wolframalpha.com, to check your answers.

 

F 2/8/13

HW due: Read §9-4; write §9-3 #22-32 even, §9-4 #14, 16.

 

M 2/11/13

HW due:

1. Read §9-5.

2. Derive at least one of the reduction formulas in the green box on p. 449. On your test, you will be given one of these and asked to derive it by using integration by parts. The time-honored method of precal students (“Work both ends to the middle and prove that they are equal”) is not acceptable for this exercise. You must use integration by parts.

3. Memorize the identities in the green box on p. 452. These (and their applications) may appear on a quiz and/or on the test.

4. Write §9-5 #2, 4. For each of these, use (a) a reduction formula and (b) a helpful trig identity that allows the problem to be recast as a u-substitution.

5. Write §9-5 #8, 9, 12, 14, 29, 32.

 

T 2/12/13

HW due: Review problems, minimum of 35 minutes’ worth. Log your time and bring written evidence of what you worked on. Hashing through previously assigned problems is permitted, but use a fresh sheet of paper with Tuesday’s due date. Label the page number and problem number for each problem that you work on.

In class: Review.

 

W 2/13/13

Test (100 pts.) on all material through §9-5. This will be a 40-minute test, since a Friday schedule is in effect.

 

Th 2/14/13

HW due: Sleep.

 

F 2/15/13

No school (faculty professional day).

 

M 2/18/13

No school (holiday).

 

T 2/19/13

HW due:

1. Read §9-6.

2. Read and work through as much of this on-line tutorial on partial fraction decomposition as you can. The on-line tutorial does a better job of teaching this subject than Mr. Hansen does, so let’s take advantage of the technology!

3. Write §9-6 #1, 7, 17.

4. Use the “integral table” formula we proved in class last Thursday (incorporating Sam D.’s timely chain-rule correction, of course!) to solve §9-6 #15 in a jiffy. Or, you can do §9-6 #3 using one of the other formulas we looked at.

 

W 2/20/13

HW due:

1. Read §9-8.

2. Complete (using trigonometric substitution) Tuesday’s in-class problem:

2. Write §9-7 #23abcd, 24abcdefgh.

 

Th 2/21/13

HW due:

1. Complete last night’s HW.

2. Read §9-9.

3. Write §9-8 #3, 6, 10. Show the integration by parts (sketchy work is acceptable here).

 

F 2/22/13

HW due:

1. Complete the integration by parts in §9-8 #10 from last night’s HW.

2. Redo §9-8 #10 using washers (or shells, if you used washers the first time).

3. Read §9-10.

4. Write §9-9 #3-21 mo3, 26, 27, 38a.

 

M 2/25/13

HW due:

1. Once again, if you have not completed §9-8 #10, do it! Be sure to check your work using the washer method (or shells, if you used washers the first time).

2. Complete the other problems from Friday’s assignment.

3. Write §9-10 #3, 4, 9, 11, 12, 17, 19, 22.

 

T 2/26/13

HW due:

Write §9-11 #1-100 as follows. Don’t actually do the problems; simply make a table as follows:



Use check marks in the table to indicate the method (or methods) that would be appropriate for each problem. If one method is clearly preferable to all the others in its row, circle the check mark.

The purpose of this exercise is to become proficient at recognizing the proper technique to use. Presumably you already have some skill in applying the techniques, but it is also important to be able to identify the right techniques.

Your table will have to run to at least 4 pages. You may abbreviate the column headings on the continuation pages.

 

W 2/27/13

HW due:

1. Read §10-2. There is no new material here; it is all review. Remember that reading notes are required, as always.

2. Write §10-2 #1, 2, 5, 6, 12, 13.

 

Th 2/28/13

HW due:

1. Read §10-3.

2. Write §10-3 #1-6 all, 13. The book’s solution to #13 is correct but not very enlightening. Try to do your own proof for #13 without consulting the back of the book.

 

 

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