Math 170 Calculus I

This course, and its successors MATH 171 and MATH 220 is intended for mathematics and science students.  It assumes a good background in precalculus algebra and analytic geometry, and some familiarity with trigonometry.

The current textbook is: Calculus from Graphical, Numerical, and Symbolic Points of View by Ostebee and Zorn.
 

Chapter 1 Functions in Calculus
Chapter 2 The Derivative
Chapter 3 Derivatives of Elementary Functions
Chapter 4 Applications of the Derivative
Chapter 5 The Integral
Chapter 6 Finding Antiderivatives

Read the textbook; your success in the course may depend on it.  It is not just a collection of exercises and worked examples; it is meant to be read.

Check out daily activities with the Calendar.

Two Projects for this course can be found at these links:


Use of the computer algebra system Maple (now in Relelase 6) is an integral part of the course. Laboratory worksheets geared to the text are available here.

I recommend the Mathematics Survival Guide of Professor James Martino of The Johns Hopkins University Mathematics Department.

A very interesting site on the World Wide Web is the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at St. Andrews University in Aberdeen, Scotland. Here you will find biographies of hundreds of mathematicians.

Cincinnati celebrated the Big Pig Gig last year.  One artistic endeavor reminds me of the disk method of computing volumes. Check it out.