Welcome
to the HappyCal Zone
(Honors
AP Calculus BC, Period A)
Web address shortcut for this page: www.modd.net/910hcal
Are
you nervous when you see NCWEE? concerned when you see CIRC? perturbed when you
see PBC? Visit Mr. Hansen’s fabled abbreviations
page to make sense of those cryptic markings you see on your papers.
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Schedule
at a Glance (see archives for older entries) |
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Th 5/27/010 |
Tonight, please take the anonymous feedback survey. No
information other than the questions posed is being collected (not even IP addresses!). |
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F 5/28/010 |
Last day of class; end of
fourth quarter. All work to be graded, including extra credit, if any, must be
submitted by 3:30 p.m. today. |
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Essential Links:
-- STA
School Handbook
-- College
Board: AP Calculus BC Course Description
-- Eric Weisstein’s World of
Mathematics, the Web’s most extensive mathematics resource (no kidding!)
-- WolframAlpha, a site that I
possibly shouldn’t tell you about . . .
Extra Help:
-- Karl’s Calculus Tutor for
first-year students
-- Calc101.com, another site I might not want
to tell you about (click it and you’ll see why)
-- Temple University: Calculus on
the Web (COW)
Links Based on Class Discussions:
-- Troy’s
Integral Approximation Thingy: a neat JavaScript application for Midpoint
Rule, Trapezoid Rule, Simpson’s Rule, etc.
-- The
“RiemannSums Applet” found by John S. (actually shows you the rectangles or
trapezoids)
-- Chris and Andrew’s proof that
Simpson’s Rule is a weighted average of the Midpoint and Trapezoid Rules
-- Braxton’s direct proof of FTC2
-- Proof that FTC1 implies FTC2 and
conversely
-- Related rates tutorial and
practice problems
-- Partial
fraction decomposition with sample problems and solutions, courtesy of the
University of California at Davis
Links for AP Preparation:
-- Real
sample AP questions from the College Board
-- AB Calculus Cram Sheet
-- BC Calculus Cram Sheet
(courtesy of Will Felder and Mr. Hansen)
-- “Stuff
you MUST know cold” (link to another AP calculus teacher’s site; requires
Adobe Acrobat reader)
-- Review question logsheet
(requires Microsoft Excel); also available are updated 2-page versions for 2008-09 and 2009-10
-- Permitted features for
graphing calculators on the AP examination
-- Actual
college calculus tests from Mr. Hansen’s alma mater (great practice!)
-- Multiple choice practice #1 with answer key
-- Multiple choice practice #2 with answer key
-- First semester recap
(recycled from my 2006-07 IntroCal class, for which this handout served as a
full-year recap)
Fun Links:
-- Homemade “Segway”-like balancing scooter uses a fair amount of calculus!
-- Mathematicians
as depicted in the movies (Good Will Hunting, etc.)
-- An Algebra II problem that
has a calculus flavor to it. (This is problem #26 from §11-7 of Foerster’s Algebra
and Trigonometry: Functions and Applications.) The problem is to determine
which sweepstakes prize is better: a $20,000 lump sum or $100 a month for life.
Assume 4% annual interest compounded monthly. In part (d), the challenge is to
determine how the answer changes if the interest rate changes to 7%.
-- The Mt. Sinai problem and two
variations
-- The astonishing Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe
algorithm for calculating pi to any desired decimal place
-- Sound wave analysis (harmonics,
Doppler shift, etc.) / excellent site developed by students at TJHSST in
Virginia
-- Good problems
(some calculus, some not)
-- More fun links on Mr. Hansen’s home page
Serious Links:
-- Summer math camps
for talented high school students
-- Click here for other serious links
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Last updated: 27 May 2010