Syllabus - Math 53

Reference Books: a. Leithold, Louis: The Calculus 7 b. Stewart, James: Calculus Concepts and Contexts First Exam Course Materials - available at CG Tapia's Website : www.math.upd.edu.ph/faculty/cgtapia a. Old student's class notes: Math53 File 1 & Math53 File 2 b. Teacher's notes and exercise problems: Notes_Exercises_Set01 c. Sample Exams - from selected past semesters Topics : 1. Domain, Range, Graphs, and Operations of Functions (Review of Math 17) - Basic Functions and Generalized function : cf(ax+b) + d 2. Inverse Functions, Logarithms and Trigonometric Functions (Review of Math 17) 3. Evaluation of Limits, Limits at infinity, Infinite Limits 4. Limits of Trigonometric functions 5. Continuity of a function. No of Sessions : 12 Approx. Expected Date of End of 1st Exam Scope : 24 Nov 2011 (Thu) Second Exam Course Materials - available at CG Tapia's Website : www.math.upd.edu.ph/faculty/cgtapia a. Old student's class notes: Math53 File 3 and part of Math53 File 4 b. Teacher's notes and exercise problems: Notes_Exercises_Set02 c. Sample Exams - from selected past semesters Topics : 1. Definition of Derivatives, Derivatives as Slope of Tangent Lines 2. Derivatives of Basic Functions - Constant function, Identity Function, Power Functions, Reciprocal Function 3. Differentiation Rules (for finding derivatives of different types of functions) a. Power Functions (Power Rule, n any real no.) b. Reciprocal functions (power n is negative - i.e, Negative Power Rule) c. Coefficient Rule (for a function multiplied by a constant coefficient) d. Composite functions (Chain Rule) e. Sum or Difference of functions (Term-by-term Rule) f. Product functions (Product Rules for two factors) g. Extended Product Rule (for product with n>2 factors) 4. Derivatives of Trigonometric functions 5. Implicit differentiation 6. Application of derivatives: for Sketching Graphs of functions 7. Differentiability of a function No of Sessions : 12 Approx. Expected Date of End of 2nd Exam Scope : 16 Dec 2011 (Fri)

Third Exam Course Materials - available at CG Tapia's Website : www.math.upd.edu.ph/faculty/cgtapia a. Old student's class notes: Math53 File 4 b. Teacher's notes and exercise problems: Part of Notes_Exercises_Set02 and Notes_Exercises_Set03 c. Sample Exams - from selected past semesters Topics : 1. Rectilinear Motion Problems 2. Optimization Problems - Max/Min Problems 3. Instantaneous Rate of Change Problems 4. Related Rates of Change Problems 5. Linear Approximation and Differentials 6. Mean Value Theorem No of Sessions : 10 Approx. Expected Date of End of 3rd Exam Scope : 18 Jan 2012 (Wed) Fourth Exam Course Materials - available at CG Tapia's Website : www.math.upd.edu.ph/faculty/cgtapia a. Old student's class notes: Math53 File 5 b. Teacher's notes and exercise problems: Notes_Exercises_Set04 c. Sample Exams - from selected past semesters Topics : 1. Anti-derivatives of basic functions. - Power Rule , n <> -1 - Reciprocal Function , n=-1 => Anti-derivative = ln function 2. Absorber-type Substitution Method (ASM) - as a process reversing the Chain Rule. 3. Solutions of Differential Equations - Variable-Separable-Type - i.e. given f'(x) => find f(x) e.g. (i) given slope of tangent line => find eqtn of fn. (ii) given velocity => find eqtn of rectilinear motion (iii) given acceleration => find velocity and eqtn of rectilinear motion. 4. Definition of Definite Integrals :(Riemann's Sums) Applications : (a) Areas of bounded plane regions (b) Volumes of Solids of Revolution - Disc , Shell and Washer Methods (c) Arclengths 5. Mean Value Theorem for Integrals - average value of fn. 6. Fundamental Theorem of Calculus No of Sessions : 12 Approx. Expected Date of End of 4th Exam Scope : 10 Feb 2012 (Friday)

Fifth Exam Course Materials - available at CG Tapia's Website : www.math.upd.edu.ph/faculty/cgtapia a. Old student's class notes: Math53 File 6,7,8 (10pp + 7pp + 5pp = 22pp Total ) b. Teacher's notes and exercise problems: Notes_Exercises_Set05 (6pp) c. Sample Exams - from selected past semesters Topics : 1. The exponential and logarithmic functions: - Derivatives and Anti-derivatives. - Additional formulas involving ln functions 2. Hyperbolic Functions and their derivatives. 3. Inverse Functions - Inverse Trigonometric & Inverse Hyperbolic Functions and their derivatives 4. Logarithmic differentiation. 5. Indeterminate form in evaluation of limits - L'Hopital's Rule 6. Exponential Growth/Decay Problems. 7. Integrals yielding Exponential, Logarithmic, Hyperbolic, Inverse Trigo and Inverse Hyperbolic functions No of Sessions : 12 Approx. Expected Date of End of 5th Exam Scope : 16 March 2012 (Friday)