Archive for September, 2006

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

1) Limit of a Product = Product of the limits
2) Limit of a sum = Sum of the limit
3) Limit of a Quotient= Quotient of the limit
4) Limit of a constant times a function = Limit times the constant
5) Identity Function: lim(x)=c as x->c
6) Composite function:

Synthetic Division:

Homework:
pg. 56 1-65odd and exploration 2.4major quiz friday

09/19-06

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Today 09/ 19-06
A.    Velocity has direction vs. speed who just imagine to.
B.    Displacement= the distance you are from your starting position.
C.    To define an integral= multiply independent variable with dependant variable. To calculate the area under the curve with trapezoids by hand you use this formula:
N= number of trapezoids.
Example if you have this function,  , [...]

Question by Laurie: what is an epsilon?

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

what does epsilon mean? it is used in the Formal Definintion of Limit:
L is the limit of f(x) as x approaches c
if and only if
for any positive number epsilon, no matter how small….etc.
Thanks,
Laurie

9/15/06 Class notes

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

A. The class discussed the homework from 9/13/06 which further explored the concept of the instantaneous rate of change and approximating it using the difference in x over the difference in y.
B. The class worked on a handout from section 1.3 that introduced definite integrals and then discussed it.
-A definite integral is the product of [...]

September 13, 2006 Class Notes

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Going over the 9/11/06 homework

For whether the rate of change is slow or fast: is based on the steepness of the graph. For example if the graph is increasing and the slope is steep then the rate of change is fast. If the slope is not very steep then the rate of change is slow. [...]

HW 9/11

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Work on the exploration for section 1.2.  This is a review of graphing functions.  Also,it is your responsibility to get solid on the type of questions you missed on the first two assessments.  You can do this by seeing me or any other teacher for help or working with classmates.  There will be a quiz [...]

9/11/06

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Today we are learning how to blog.

Sept. 7

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

Read section 1.1
P. 5 # 1,2

Monday, September 4th, 2006