Math 120

Winter 2009

Quizzes

Instructor: 
Dale Winter
6124 Wean Hall
(412) 268-8419
amanita@andrew.cmu.edu


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  Suggested review problems for quizzes will be given below. In addition, quizzes (and solutions) will be posted in the table below after they have been given in recitation sections.

Problems listed in the first table will be taken from the course textbook, Essential Calculus: Early Transcendentals by James Stewart. Any review problems not taken from the text will be posted here in PDF format.

Quizzes are normally in recitation on Thursdays. There will be ten quizzes over the course of the semester. The lowest two quiz scores will be dropped at the end of the semester.

Date

Topics Quizzed

Suggested Problems

January 14

  • Course policies
  • Read the first day of class handout, available here.

January 22

  • Testing and evaluating functions
  • Finding the domain of a function
  • Finding formulas for functions
  • Solving equations using functions
  • Pages 8-10: 3, 5, 15, 17, 23, 25
  • Pages 21-24: 11, 37, 39, 41
  • Click here for additional problems on setting up trigonometric formulas.

January 29

  • Determining when limits exist or do not exist (graphs)
  • Determining when limits exist or do not exist (formulas and tables of values)
  • Approximating limits using a calculator
  • Calculating limits using algebra
  • Pages 33-35: 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 15
  • Pages 43-45: 1, 3, 7, 11, 15, 17, 25

February 5

  • Calculating limits as x approaches infinity
  • Evaluating infinite limits
  • Finding formulas for derivatives using a difference quotient and limits
  • Finding formulas for tangent lines
  • Pages 66-69: 9, 13, 15, 19, 21, 31
  • Pages 43-45: 7, 11, 13, 19, 23, 25

February 17 and February 19

  • Finding formulas for derivatives
  • Implicit differentiation
  • The derivative of f(x) = ex is f'(x) = ex
  • The derivative of ln(x) is 1/x
  • Pages 111-112: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25
  • Pages 119-120: 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37
  • Pages 125-127: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13

February 26

  • Finding derivatives using implicit differentiation
  • Solving related rates problems
  • Pages 125-127: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19
  • Pages 131-133: 9, 11, 15, 25, 33

March 26

  • Finding derivatives of functions that include inverse trigonometric or hyperbolic functions
  • Related rates
  • Finding limits using L'Hopital's rule
  • Pages 180: 17, 19, 21, 23, 29, 33, 39
  • Pages 193-194: 3, 7, 15, 17, 21, 23, 43, 45

April 2

  • Setting up functions from written descriptions of situations
  • Using derivatives to find critical points
  • Using the first and second derivative to classify critical points as local maximums or local minimums
  • Pages 232-236: 5, 9, 19, 31, 37

April 9

  • Finding formulas for antiderivatives
  • Checking the formula for F(x) to see if it is an antiderivative for f(x)
  • Approximating the area under a curve using rectangles
  • Pages 246-247: 3, 5, 7
  • Pages 248-250: 51, 53
  • Pages 260-261: 3, 5, 11

April 28

  • Finding formulas for antiderivatives directly
  • Finding formulas for antiderivatives using the technique of u-substitution
  • Evaluating definite integrals using the technique of u-substitution
  • Pages 298-300: 3, 5, 7, 11, 15, 21, 27, 37, 41, 45, 49



Quizzes that have been given in recitation sections are listed below. Click on the links in the table to download the quiz and its solutions (both in PDF format).

Date

Quiz

Solutions

January 15

Quiz 1

Solutions for Quiz 1

January 22

Quiz 2

Solutions for Quiz 2

January 29

Quiz 3

Solutions for Quiz 3

February 5

Quiz 4

Solutions for Quiz 4

February 26

Quiz 5

Solutions for Quiz 5

March 26

Quiz 6

Solutions for Quiz 6

April 2

Quiz 7

You had to be there!

April 9

Quiz 8

Solutions for Quiz 8