Tips for Studying for Exam I
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The exam is Thursday, September 30, 8:00-9:15 a.m. It is designed
to be done in an hour. Make sure you know what room your exam is in.
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There will be a review session the evening of Wednesday, September 29,
in 102 DeBartolo at 7:00 p.m. This is your chance to get last minute
questions answered.
- The exam will cover chapter 6, except for section 6.12,
and the first two sections of chapter 7.
In regards to the inverse trig functions, you are only responsible
for the inverses of sin(x), cos(x) and tan(x). For the hyperbolic
functions, you are only responsible for sinh(x), cosh(x), tanh(x)
and their inverses.
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Calculators will be allowed. However, you must show all your work
and all important steps on each problem. You will get very little
credit for just writing down an answer you find on your calculator.
We have chosen the exam problems carefully to test your knowledge
and understanding of the topics we have studied, not to test your
ability to press buttons on a calculator.
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The "Questions to Guide Your Review" at the end of each chapter
of Thomas and Finney do an excellent job of giving you a review
of what the basic concepts are. The one for chapter 6 is on page 547.
- A good strategy for practicing computation is to go back through
the homework problems and work problems similar to those assigned.
At the end of each chapter in Thomas and Finney, there are
"Practice Exercises" and "Additional Exercises--Theory, Examples."
For chapter 6, these begin on page 548. Begin by studying the
material, to make sure you have everything at your finger tips. Then
work an assortment of the odd-numbered problems.
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We have covered lots of topics. For example, we have talked about
more than 20 different functions. On an exam designed to take
an hour, we cannot possibly ask you a question about each topic.