Last updated 09/25/2015

Math 17A Tentative Schedule

DateCoverage
9/25Intro
  
9/28Geometric Scaling in Biology
9/30Allometry/Biological Scaling Laws, 1.3 Graphing Using Log-Log Plots and Log-Linear Plots
10/22.2 Sequences
  
10/52.2 Sequences
10/73.1 Limits
10/93.1 Limits; 3.2 Continuity
  
10/123.2 Continuity; 3.3 Limits at Infinity
10/143.4 The Sandwich Theorem and Some Trigonometric Limits
10/163.5 Properties of Continuous Functions
  
10/94.1 Formal Definition of the Derivative
10/21Exam 1
10/234.1 Formal Definition of the Derivative; 4.2 Basic Rules of Differentiation
  
10/264.2 Basic Rules of Differentiation
10/284.3 Product and Quotient Rules
10/304.4 The Chain Rule and Higher Derivatives
  
11/24.4 The Chain Rule and Higher Derivatives
11/44.5 Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions; 4.6 Derivatives of Exponential Functions
11/64.7 Inverse Functions and Logarithms
  
11/94.8 Linear Approximation and Error Propagation
11/11Holiday
11/135.1 Extrema and the Mean-Value Theorem
  
11/165.2 Monotonicity and Concavity; 5.3 Extrema, Inflection Points, and Graphing
11/18Exam 2
11/205.4 Optimization
  
11/235.4 Optimization, 5.5 L'Hospital's Rule
11/255.5 L'Hospital's Rule
11/27Thanksgiving
  
11/302.1, 2.3, 5.6 Discrete Models of Exponential Growth and Decay, Fixed Points and Their Stability in Difference Equations, Biological Examples of Discrete Models
12/22.1, 2.3, 5.6 Discrete Models of Exponential Growth and Decay, Fixed Points and Their Stability in Difference Equations, Biological Examples of Discrete Models
12/4Review/Catch-Up