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Leah Keshet's Notes

These course notes were written by Prof. Leah Keshet (UBC Math) and are based on material taught in Math 102 over several years. They are being updated over time. These notes are provided for all interested in learning. Copyrights are reserved by Keshet. Last update: August, 2013.

• Title page, TOC, preface, index.
• Chapter 1: How big can a cell be? (The power of functions).
• Chapter 2: Average rates of change, average velocity and the secant line
• Chapter 3: Zooming into the graph of a function: tangent lines and derivatives
• Chapter 4: The Derivative
• Chapter 5: What the Derivative tells us about a function
• Chapter 6: Optimization
• Chapter 7: The Chain Rule, Related Rates, and Implicit Differentiation
• Chapter 8: Exponential functions
• Chapter 9: Exponential Growth and Decay: Differential Equations
• Chapter 10: Trigonometric functions
• Chapter 11: Approximation methods
• Chapter 12: More Differential Equations
• Appendices
• Short answers to Problems
• Full text.
• Full text with Errata Highlighted. This will be updated during the term.

Paul Dawkins' Notes

These notes are written by Prof. Paul Dawkins at Lamar University. They are also available on his website along with notes for several other common math courses. The files below are exported from his site with chapter and section numbers added by hand for ease of reference in the course calendar.

• Title page, TOC, section summaries.
• Chapter 0: Review material; for you to review on your own.
• Chapter 1: Limits.
• Chapter 2: Derivatives.
• Chapter 3: Applications of derivatives.
• Full text.

• Summary of assigned reading from Paul's Notes and material to skip

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