Homework assignments

Mathematics 105

Page numbers refer to the textbook Calculus and its Applications, 7th edition, by Goldstein, Lay, and Schneider. ``Supp. set'' refers to the supplementary problems I distributed at the start of the semester.

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Number Assignment Topic
1 p. 29: 1-5, 15-18 linear functions, graphs
2 p. 63: 22, 23, 25, 26 linear cost, revenue, and profit
3 p. 81: 4-8, 13, 15-18, 22, 23, 25 points and slopes
4 p. 18: 13, 14, 17, 18, 21, 22 function notation
5 p. 66: 33-36; Supp. set: 1-3 non-linear cost and revenue
6 Supp. set: 4-7 quadratic functions
7 p. 19: 23-26 natural domain of a function
8 Supp. set: 8 asymptotes
9 p. 53: 1, 2, 8-10, 12-15, 17-20, 77-84; Supp. set: 9 powers and roots
10 p. 20: 53, 54, 56; Supp. set: 10, 11 multi-line functions and continuity
11 p. 54: 85-90, 94 simple and compound interest
12 p. 344: 5, 6, 8, 11 continuously compounded interest
13 p. 310: 1-8, 13-18, 21-23; Supp. set: 12-16 basic exp-log relation
14 p. 336: 15-18; Supp. set: 17-19 growth and decay problems
15 p. 345: 10, 13, 14 growth of an investment
16 p. 89: 10-12, 13-18 slope of a curve -- general idea
17 p. 90: 22, 23, 25-27 slope and tangent of parabola
18 Supp. set: 20 slope and tangent by secant approximation
19 Supp. set: 21 derivative from definition
20 p. 126: 4-6, 13-15, 29, 32; Supp. set: 22 derivative from formulas
21 p. 126: 39, 41, 42 slope and tangent via derivative formulas
22 p. 148: 31(a,b,d,e), 33; Supp. set: 23 velocity
23 p. 148: 31(c), 34; p. 153: 54, 55, 57 acceleration and second derivative
24 p. 146: 23-26 marginal cose, revenue, and profit
25 p. 146: 18, 35, 38, 39, 40 linear approximation
26 Supp. set: 24-27 derivative of ln x
27 Supp. set: 28-30 derivative of ex
28 Supp. set: 31-34 derivatives of other exponentials
29 Supp. set: 35, 36 Newton's law of cooling
30 p. 336: 19-21 carbon dating
31 p. 257: 1,3; p. 304: 22, 25, 27; p. 314: 4, 7, 16, 17 product rule
32 p. 257: 13, 15, 32, 36, 37; p. 304: 29; p. 314: 14 quotient rule
33 p. 265: 11, 33, 34, 45-47, 49; p. 304: 5, 11, 14, 23; p. 314: 3, 6, 11, 12, 25 chain rule
34 p. 281: 13, 14, 21-26, 50, 51; p. 322: 20, 21, 26, 50, 51, 59, 60; Supp. set: 37, 38 miscellaneous derivative problems
35 Supp. set: 39-42; p. 184: 37, 38; p. 315: 26, 28 critical points and first derivative test
36 p. 180: 1-6, 39, 40; p. 244: 3-6 second derivative and concativity
37 p. 195: 2, 5, 9, 11, 17-20; p. 304: 35, 37, 38 second derivative test
38 p. 246: 33, 35, 36, 41-43; p. 305: 51, 52; p. 323: 31, 33, 65, 66 curve sketching
39 p. 226: 1, 2, 4-6 (Note: read examples 1-3 on pages 218-222.) optimization
40 p. 240: 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13 economics and business problems
41 p. 382: 1-6, 24, 25, 28, 34, 36, 47, 49, 50 antiderivatives
42 p. 410: 23-26, 28, 29, 31 area and antiderivative


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