NVB

Resources for the National Virtual Bridge Program

Textbook

OpenStax Calculus Volume 1, by Gilbert Strang, Edwin Herman, et al. (link)

Class Notes

Link to OneNote notebook. 

Review problems for Quiz 1 from the textbook: 

• • Section 1.2: 94, 97

  • Section 2.2: 46-54, 71-75, 76, 

  • Section 2.3: 84, 85, 89, 90, 94, 96, 108, 110, 113, 

  • Section 2.4: 139, 143, 159, 160, 162, 163

Review problems for Quiz 2 from the textbook: 

• Section 3.1: 23, 29

• Section 3.2: 58, 62, 79, 80

• Section 3.3: 116, 120 (you don't have to do the calculator part), 130, 131, 132

• Section 3.4: 151, 154

• Section 3.5: 177, 179, 182

• Section 3.6: 230, 234, 245, 246

• Section 3.8: 303, 304, 312 (skip calculator part)

• Section 3.9: 332, 334, 340, 343

Review problems for Final Exam from the textbook:

• All the problems listed in the reviews for Quiz 1 and Quiz 2

• Section 4.1: 4, 6, 17, 27 (for 27 the rate should be given in ft/min)

• Section 4.3: 101, 106, 132, 133

• Section 4.7: 318, 319, 354

Office Hours

Adriana M. Ortiz Aquino

• Tuesday 3:15-5:00pm EST (in Calculus breakout room)

• By appointment 

Safiyyah Franklin

• Tuesday & Wednesday 8:30-10:00am EST (in Calculus breakout room)

• Saturday 10:00-11:30am EST (using this link)

• By appointment

Schedule

This schedule will be updated almost daily.

Week 1

Monday, June 24th - Student orientation

Tuesday, June 25th - Syllabus overview, introductions, and review of college algebra topics 

• • Sections 1.1, 1.2

Wednesday, June 26th - Trig review, and intro to limits

• • Sections 1.3, 1.5, 2.2

Thursday, June 27th - One-sided limits, infinite limits, limit laws, and continuous functions

• • Sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

Week 2

Monday, July 1st - Class activity on limits and discontinuities

Tuesday, July 2nd - Intro to derivatives

• • Sections 2.1, 3.1, 3.2

Wednesday, July 3rd - Quiz #1 

• • Sections covered are 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

Week 3

Monday, July 8th - Going over Quiz 1 and continuing derivatives

• Sections 3.2

Tuesday July 9th - Differentiation rules

• Section 3.3, 3.4

Wednesday, July 10th - Recitation on derivatives

Thursday, July 11th - Derivatives of special functions and chain rule

• Section 3.5, 3.6, 3.9

Week 4

Monday, July 15th - Implicit differentiation 

• Section 3.8

Tuesday, July 16th - Applications of derivatives

• Section 4.1 

Wednesday, July 17th - Recitation on related rates

Thursday, July 18th - Quiz 2

• Sections covered are 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8, 3.9

Week 5

Monday, July 22nd - Maxima and minima

• Section 4.3

Tuesday, July 23rd - Applied optimization and recitation

• Section 4.7

Wednesday, July 24th - Review

Thursday, July 25th - Final exam and final remarks

• All sections will be covered in the final

Important dates

HW 1 due Monday, July 1st by midnight via email to adrianaortiz@ksu.edu

Quiz 1 on Wednesday, July 3rd during class time

HW 2 due Monday, July 15th by midnight via email to adrianaortiz@ksu.edu

Quiz 2 on Thursday, July 18th during class time

HW 3 due Monday, July 22nd by midnight via email to adrianaortiz@ksu.edu

Final Exam on Thursday, July 25th during class time

Documents

Other Resources: 

• Paul's Online Math Notes - Calculus 1

• Why do we use radians instead of degrees?

• Notation for differentiation

• Proofs of various derivative rules

• How to succeed in a Calculus course? 

• Calculus Cheat Sheet