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Math 20A Winter 2022

Homework and Exam Dates

All homework assignments are turned in on Macmillan Achieve (which can also be accessed through Canvas).

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1
Jan 3 Jan 4 Jan 5 Jan 6 Jan 7
HW1 due 3pm PST
2
Jan 10 Jan 11 Jan 12 Jan 13 Jan 14
HW2 due 3pm PST
3
Jan 17
No class (Martin
Luther King Jr. Day)
Jan 18 Jan 19 Jan 20 Jan 21
HW3 due 3pm PST
4
Jan 24 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 28
HW4 due 3pm PST
5
Jan 31
Midterm 1 (in class)
Feb 1 Feb 2 Feb 3 Feb 4
HW5 due 3pm PST
6
Feb 7 Feb 8 Feb 9 Feb 10 Feb 11
HW6 due 3pm PST
7
Feb 14 Feb 15 Feb 16 Feb 17 Feb 18
HW7 due 3pm PST
8
Feb 21
No class
(Presidents' Day)
Feb 22 Feb 23 Feb 24 Feb 25
HW8 due 3pm PST
Midterm 2 (in class)
9
Feb 28 Mar 1 Mar 2 Mar 3 Mar 4
HW9 due 3pm PST
10
Mar 7 Mar 8 Mar 9 Mar 10 Mar 11
HW10 due 3pm PST
Finals
Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar 17 Mar 18
Final Exam
3-6pm PDT
Location TBD
Notice the change to
daylight savings time

Lecture schedule

Here is a tentative schedule of what will be covered in each lecture, together with the relevant section(s) of the textboox (Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Single Variable, 4th edition by Rogawski, Adams, and Franzosa). This is subject to change; there will be some give and take between lectures.

Week Date Topic Book Sections
1 1/3 The Limit Idea (arrow warm-up problem) 2.1
1/5 Investigating Limits, Basic Limit Laws (board)
(finished in supplementary lecture (board), due to technical issues)
2.2, 2.3
1/7 Limits and Continuity (board) 2.4
2 1/10 Indeterminate Forms, Limits at Infinity (board)
(2.7 in supplementary lecture (board))
2.5, 2.7
1/12 The Squeeze Theorem and Trigonometric Limits,
The Intermediate Value Theorem (board)
2.6, 2.8
1/14 Definition of the Derivative (board) 3.1
3 1/17 No Class (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
1/19 The Derivative as a Function (board, proofs of derivative rules) 3.2
1/21 Product and Quotient Rules (board) 3.3
4 1/24 Rates of Change, Higher Derivatives (board) 3.4, 3.5
1/26 Trigonometric Functions (board) 3.6
1/28 The Chain Rule (board) 3.7
5 1/31 Midterm Exam 1 (exam, solutions)
2/2 Implicit Differentiation (warm-up) 3.8
2/4 Derivatives of General Exponential and Logarithmic Functions (warm-up) 3.9
6 2/7 Related Rates (warm-up) 3.10
2/9 Linear Approximation and Applications (warm-up) 4.1
2/11 Extreme Values (warm-up) 4.2
7 2/14 The Mean Value Theorem and Monotonicity (recap slide, warm-up) 4.3
2/16 The Second Derivative and Concavity (warm-up) 4.4
2/18 L'Hôpital's Rule (warm-up 1, warm-up 2) 4.5
8 2/21 No Class (Presidents' Day)
2/23 Analyzing and Sketching Graphs of Functions 4.6
2/25 Midterm Exam 2 (exam, solutions)
9 2/28 Applied Optimization (warm-up, can design video) 4.7
3/2 Approximating and Computing Area
(warm-up, slide 1, slide 2, desmos demo, summation notation notes)
5.1
3/4 The Definite Integral (warm-up) 5.2
10 3/7 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Part II
(warm-up 1, comparison test, warm-up 2)
5.5
3/9 The Indefinite Integral,
The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Part I (warm-up, graphs)
5.3, 5.4
3/11 The Indefinite Integral,
The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Part I (warm-up)
5.3, 5.4
3/18 Final Exam (Friday of finals week, 3-6pm)

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