Math 1241 Course Outline

Math1241 (Calculus I) Course Outline.

Check with your instructor for the class syllabus, exam schedules and textbook information.

Week 1 A Catalog of Essential Functions; Limit of a Function; Calculating Limits

Week 2 Continuity; Limits Involving Infinity;

Week 3 Derivatives and Rates of Change; The Derivative of a Function

Week 4 Basic Differentiation Formulas; Product and Quotient Rules; Chain Rule; Implicit Differentiation

Week 5 Review for Test 1; Test 1

Week 6 Related Rates; Linear Approximations and Differentials

Week 7 Inverse Functions and Logarithms; Derivatives of Logarithms and Exponential Functions;

Week 8 Exponential Growth and Decay; Inverse Trigonometric Functions

Week 9 Indeterminate Forms and L’Hospital’s Rule; Maximum and Minimum Values

Week 10 Review for Test 2; Test 2

Week 11 The Mean Value Theorem; Derivatives and the Shapes of Graphs

Week 12 Curve Sketching; Optimization Problem

Week 13 Newton’s Method;Antiderivatives

Week 14 Review for Test 3; Test 3

Week 15 Review for Common Final Exam; Common Final Exam