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After completing this section, students should be able to do the following.Identify word problems as related rates problems.Translate word problems into mathematical equations.Solve related rates word problems.
After completing this section, students should be able to do the following.Express the sum of n terms using sigma notation.Apply the properties of sums when working with sums in sigma notation.Understand the relationship between area under a curve and sums of areas of rectangles.Approximate area of the region under a curve.Compute left, right, and midpoint Riemann sums with 10 or fewer rectangles.Understand how Riemann sums with n rectangles are computed and how the exact value of the area is obtained by taking the limit as n→∞n→∞ .
After completing this section, students should be able to do the following.Recognize a composition of functions.Take derivatives of compositions of functions using the chain rule.Take derivatives that require the use of multiple rules of differentiation.Use the chain rule to calculate derivatives from a table of values.Understand rate of change when quantities are dependent upon each other.Use order of operations in situations requiring multiple rules of differentiation.Apply chain rule to relate quantities expressed with different units.Compute derivatives of trigonometric functions.Use multiple rules of differentiation to calculate derivatives from a table of values.
After completing this section, students should be able to do the following.Find the intervals where a function is increasing or decreasing.Find the intervals where a function is concave up or down.Determine how the graph of a function looks without using a calculator.
After completing this section, students should be able to do the following.Understand what information the derivative gives concerning when a function is increasing or decreasing.Understand what information the second derivative gives concerning concavity of the graph of a function.Interpret limits as giving information about functions.Determine how the graph of a function looks based on an analytic description of the function.
After completing this section, students should be able to do the following.Identify where a function is, and is not, continuous.Understand the connection between continuity of a function and the value of a limit.Make a piecewise function continuous.State the Intermediate Value Theorem including hypotheses.Determine if the Intermediate Value Theorem applies.Sketch pictures indicating why the Intermediate Value Theorem is true, and why all hypotheses are necessary.Explain why certain points exist using the Intermediate Value Theorem.
After completing this section, students should be able to do the following.Use integral notation for both antiderivatives and definite integrals.Compute definite integrals using geometry.Compute definite integrals using the properties of integrals.Justify the properties of definite integrals using algebra or geometry.Understand how Riemann sums are used to find exact area.Define net area.Approximate net area.Split the area under a curve into several pieces to aid with calculations.Use symmetry to calculate definite integrals.Explain geometrically why symmetry of a function simplifies calculation of some definite integrals.
After completing this section, students should be able to do the following.Use limits to find the slope of the tangent line at a point.Understand the definition of the derivative at a point.Compute the derivative of a function at a point.Estimate the slope of the tangent line graphically.Write the equation of the tangent line to a graph of a function at a given point.Recognize and distinguish between secant and tangent lines.Recognize the the tangent line as a local approximation for a differentiable function near a point.
After completing this section, students should be able to do the following.Understand the derivative as a function related to the original definition of a function.Find the derivative function using the limit definition.Relate the derivative function to the derivative at a point.Explain the relationship between differentiability and continuity.Relate the graph of the function to the graph of its derivative.Determine whether a piecewise function is differentiable.
After completing this section, students should be able to do the following.Find derivatives of inverse functions in general.Recall the meaning and properties of inverse trigonometric functions.Derive the derivatives of inverse trigonometric functions.Understand how the derivative of an inverse function relates to the original derivative.Take derivatives which involve inverse trigonometric functions.