Revised Schedule -- Calculus for Physical and Life Sciences, 2

Spring 2008, Prof. Little

This is an evolving schedule. Topics may be added, deleted, or rearranged during the course of the semester. Any changes will be announced in class and here.

Date Class TopicReading (Stewart)
3/3,4,5,7 No class -- Spring break
3/10 Modeling with differential equations 7.1
3/11 Direction fields 7.2
3/12 Euler's Method 7.2
3/14 Lab 2: Slope fields and Euler's Method 7.2
3/17 Separable equations 7.3
3/18 Exponential growth and decay 7.4
3/19 More on exponential growth and decay 7.4
3/21,24 No Class -- Easter break
3/25 Review for Exam 2
3/26 Logistic models of population growth 7.5
Exam II given 6:00 - 7:30pm, Haberlin 103
3/28 Lab 3: Logistic models in ecology 7.5
3/31 Sequences and series 8.1
4/1 Geometric series and convergence 8.2
4/2 Integral test and p-series 8.3
4/4 Ratio test and absolute convergence 8.4
4/7 Power series and interval of convergence 8.5
4/8 Representing functions by Taylor and Maclaurin series 8.6
4/9 Taylor and Maclaurin polynomials and series 8.7
4/11 Lab 4: Visualizing convergence 8.7
4/14 Moments and centers of mass 6.5
4/15 Motivating probability distributions 6.7
4/16 Probability densities and cumulative distributions 6.7
4/18 Mean, median, variance
4/21 Normal distributions
4/22 Review for Exam 3
4/23 Spare day
Exam III given 7:00 - 8:30pm, Haberlin 103 Note different time
4/25 Lab 5: Normal probabilities
4/28 Spare day
4/29 Course wrap-up

The final exam for this course will be given at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 8.

Last modified: December 31, 2007