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Date Video link Video contents
Week 1 Sept 3 [1] Power functions - when is $x^n>x^m$ and where do they intersect. Introduction to even and odd functions.
[2] Cell size and nutrient balance: cell volume and area and the role of power functions in describing cell size limitations.
Sept 5 [3] Sketching simple polynomials (y=x^3-ax).
Week 2 Sept 8 [4] Approximating a rational function near the origin.
[5] Approximating a rational function for large x. Introduction to Hill functions.
[6] Sketching Hill functions by hand and by Desmos (see Hill functions demo). Comparing Hill functions with different parameter values.
See video [1] above for an introduction to even and odd functions and also Sec 1.2.3 and Appendix C.D of the course notes.
Sept 10 [7] Average rate of change and secant lines. Instantaneous rate of change.
[8] Definition of the derivative.
Sept 12 [9] Continuity - definition and examples of three types of discontinuities.
[10] Examples of computing the derivative of a function from the definition of the derivative.
Week 3 Sept 15 [11] Derivatives: analytic, and geometric (zoom in on a point). Sketching $f'(x)$ given $f(x)$ (intro).
Sept 17 [12] NEW!! Derivatives (cont): computational (spreadsheet example). More examples of sketching $f'(x)$ given $f(x)$ (intro).
Sept 19 [13] Rules of differentiation: Product and quotient rules. Antiderivatives of power functions. Application to falling ball, motion of Listeria. Sketching $f(x)$ given $f'(x)$ (intro).
[14] Rules of differentiation: Product and quotient rules. Antiderivatives of power functions. Application to falling ball, motion of Listeria. Sketching $f(x)$ given $f'(x)$ (intro).
[15] Rules of differentiation: Product and quotient rules. Antiderivatives of power functions. Application to falling ball, motion of Listeria. Sketching $f(x)$ given $f'(x)$ (intro).
Week 4 Sept 22 [16] Tangent lines and linear approximation.
[17] Tangent lines and linear approximation.
[18] Tangent lines and linear approximation.
Sept 24 [19] Introduction to Newton’s method. Sketching the graph of a function using calculus tools: increasing, decreasing, critical points.
[20] Introduction to Newton’s method. Sketching the graph of a function using calculus tools: increasing, decreasing, critical points.
[21] Introduction to Newton’s method. Sketching the graph of a function using calculus tools: increasing, decreasing, critical points.
Sept 26 EC Sketching the graph of a function using calculus tools (cont): concavity and inflection points.
Week 5 Sept 29
Sept 30 MIDTERM 1: 6-7 pm
Oct 1 EC Finish sketching functions. Introduce simple optimization problem(s).
Oct 3 More optimization examples including those with a constraint and those on bounded intervals. Distinction between absolute (global) and local minima and maxima.
Week 6 Oct 6 [22] Kepler's Wedding - A wine optimization problem.
Oct 8 [23] Optimal Foraging.
Oct 10 EC Least Squares - finding the mean of a data set.
Week 7 Oct 13 THANKSGIVING - no classes.
Oct 15 EC Least Squares - finding the best fitting line y=ax through a set of data points.
Oct 17 [24](LEK),WM Chain Rule: examples, applications to optimization problems.
Week 8 Oct 20 WM More Chain Rule: Related Rates and Implicit differentiation.
Oct 22 [25] Exponential functions: intro and motivation, derivative of exponential functions.
Oct 22 [26] Exponential functions: intro and motivation, derivative of exponential functions.
Oct 24 WM Inverse functions and logarithm, applications of logs.
Week 9 Oct 27 [27] Exponential growth and decay, intro to differential equations, population growth and/or other examples.
[28] Exponential growth and decay, intro to differential equations, population growth and/or other examples.
[29] Exponential growth and decay, intro to differential equations, population growth and/or other examples.
Oct 29 [30] Solving differential equations of the type $dy/dt=a-by$.
Oct 29 [31] Solving differential equations of the type $dy/dt=a-by$.
Oct 31 LEK Newton's Law of Cooling (Murder Mystery example).
Week 10 Nov 3 Complete and/or review above topics.
Nov 4 MIDTERM 2: 6-7 pm
Nov 5 [32] Solving differential equations approximately using Euler's Method.
Nov 7 [33] Go over midterm. Introduction to nonlinear ODEs, qualitative analysis.
Week 11 Nov 10 [34] Geometry of change: (I) Slope fields, (II) State space .
[35] Geometry of change: (I) Slope fields, (II) State space .
Nov 11 Remembrance Day. University closed.
Nov 12 [36] The Logistic equation (state space and slope field).
[37] The Logistic equation (state space and slope field).
Nov 14 [38] Disease dynamics
[39] Disease dynamics
Week 12 Nov 17 Review of differential equations and/or complete above topics.
Nov 19 EC Introduction to Trigonometric Functions.
Nov 21 [40] (LEK),EC Trigonometric Functions and cyclic processes, phase, amplitude, etc. (fitting a sin or cos to a cyclic process), Inverse trig functions.
Week 13 Nov 24 WM Derivatives of trig functions, related rates examples.
Nov 26 [41] The Escape Response and trigonometric related rates.
Nov 28 Second order ODEs. Complete and/or review trig.
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