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• Welcome to Math 222
  • Calculus II
  • I’m Doug Baldwin
• Syllabus
  • Available electronically
  • Expands on calc 1
  • Grading scheme
    • Meeting expectations = 80%, exceeding gets higher
  • Collaboration
    • Give credit
  • Real-world bounty
• What Facilitates Learning?
  • Seeing how other people approach a problem
    • YouTube videos on ways to process problem
    • See example problems
    • Read
  • Do it yourself
    • Explore questions you can find in books, online, old exams, etc.
    • Practice problems on own
  • Misc
    • Understand reasons for what you’re doing
    • See similarities between problems
    • Know what you aren’t good at
• Transcendental Functions
  • What are they? Why all the fuss?
    • “Algebraic” functions: built from addition, multiplication, etc.; definitions tell you how to calculate the function
      • f(x) = x²
      • f(x) = x + 3
    • Transcendental: not calculable in terms of addition, multiplication, etc. (at least not finitely), definition doesn’t tell you how to calculate (other than maybe what button to push on a calculator)
      • g(x) = sin x, other trig, inverse trig
      • Logarithms, general exponentiation
      • Need more mathematical abstraction, sophistication, to be comfortable with these
  • Next
    • Read section 7.1
    • When and where?
      • 12:30 tomorrow, Sturges 104

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