Lab Assignments for Calculus I (Math 141), Fall 2011

Lab
Description
Assignment
Related Textbook Sections
Maplets for Calculus
A Maple Lab for Calculus I: An Introduction
New User's Tour
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B Functions See Lab Instructor Stewart: Sections 1.1-1.3
CalcLabs: Section 2.1
Domain and Range Finder
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C Functions and Plots See Lab Instructor Stewart: Sections 1.4
CalcLabs: Sections 1.4, 2.2 and 2.3
 
D Limits, Infinity, and Asymptotes See Lab Instructor Stewart: Sections 2.1, 2.3 and 2.6 Left and Right Limits and Continuity:
Using a Graph
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Using a Formula
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E A More Rigorous Approach to Limits See Lab Instructor Stewart: Section 2.4 EpsilonDelta
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F   Hour Quiz 1
(completed in lab)
   
G Differentiation and Tangent Lines See Lab Instructor Stewart: Section 2.7
CalcLabs: Sections 4.1 and 4.2
TangentLine
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H Implicit Differentiation See Lab Instructor Stewart: Section 3.5
CalcLabs: Section 4.4
ImplicitDifferentiation
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I Differentiation Drill See Lab Instructor Stewart: Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6 Graph_df
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DerivativeDrill
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J Mathematical Models: Designing a Roller Coaster Project:
Designing a Better Roller Coaster
(Project Report Guidelines)
Stewart: Sections 2.8 and 4.1  
K Optimization See Lab Instructor Stewart: Section 4.7
CalcLabs: Sections 5.2, 5.5, and 5.6
 
L   Hour Quiz 2
(completed in lab)
   
M Riemann Sums and Integration See Lab Instructor Stewart: Chapter 5 AntiDerivativeDrill
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IntBySub
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N Complete the Maple Lab Survey and the Post Technology Survey on Blackboard.      


Notes:

  • Each Hour Quiz will be distributed at the beginning of the lab period and collected at the end of the lab period.  You can use the textbook, your notes, the computer, Maple, or any other inanimate source to answer the questions. The questions will be related to the concepts and techniques addressed in previous labs.
  • Projects are longer collections of related questions that can be answered with the skills and knowledge learned in the labs and lectures for this course. A project report will be due at the beginning of the next lab period.
  • The maplets are most easily run with the Maplet Viewer (available only for Windows). On other platforms, save the file, load the file into a Maple session (just as you would any other Maple worksheet), and execute the entire worksheet. This will start the maplet.
  • Portable Document Format (PDF) files are viewable with Adobe Reader Download Adobe Reader .

  • If you have any questions, please send e-mail to sanders@math.sc.edu