AP Calculus BC (2008-09)

About college recommendations

2009-06-24T11:23:00.000-04:00

If you are in the Class of 2010 and want me to write one of your college recommendations, see this information page on recommendations. The first step is to complete a brief survey (linked from that page, if you didn't get it in class on June 24) and mail it to me by June 30. Next, bookmark that page and return to it in September for instructions about what you'll need to do in the fall.

If you have questions about recommendations or any other issue, feel free to e-mail me over the summer. Except during a few brief trips, I'll be checking e-mail often.

Final Projects 6/1-6/16

2009-06-01T14:42:00.003-04:00

The non-seniors in the course will be spending the last few weeks working on group projects. In class on Monday 6/1, we agreed on how to split the class into two groups of four, and on which projects would be done by each group.

One group will complete project 8.1 by Tuesday 6/9 and project 8.2 by Thursday 6/17.

The other group will learn about Fourier series, then complete project 8.8 by Thursday 6/17.

(The project numbers refer to project descriptions from the Contemporary Calculus textbook, which are the starting points for the projects.)

Final Exam 5/28-5/29

2009-05-26T13:19:00.001-04:00

Final Exam during our regular class periods for all students regardless of grade. Thursday 5/28 there will be a multiple-choice section; Friday 5/29 there will be three free-response problems.

No HW due Tue. 5/26

2009-05-22T16:42:00.001-04:00

No homework over the long weekend.

Test Fri. 5/22

2009-05-21T16:41:00.000-04:00

Test on the Multivariable Calculus unit.

HW due Thu. 5/21

2009-05-19T11:28:00.002-04:00

In packet "13.9 Applications of Extrema..." the homework due Thursday is problems 1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 14, 15, and 19. (We will do problems 21 and 22 during class on Thursday.)

HW due Tue. 5/19

2009-05-18T12:39:00.002-04:00

In packet "13.8 Extrema of Functions of Two Variables," problems 1-13 odd, 21, 23, 26, 31, 33, 41, 42, 45, 46, 47.

HW due Mon. 5/19

2009-05-15T12:27:00.001-04:00

In packet "13.6 Directional derivatives and gradients," exercises 44-52, 55-63 odd, 64, 73.

For your planning: Our test on Chapter 13 will be on Fri. 5/23. The final exam will be during regular class periods on Thu. 5/29 and Fri. 5/30.

HW due Fri. 5/16

2009-05-15T12:26:00.001-04:00

In packet "13.6 Directional derivatives and gradients": read through mid-page 935, and do exercises 1-8, 13-18, 21-24, 27, 28, 39, 40a, 41a, 42a, 43a.

HW due Thu. 5/14

2009-05-12T08:44:00.003-04:00

The homework is selected problems from handout packet 13.4, as listed on the back page of the packet.

For your planning: The test on Chapter 13 will be on Friday 5/22. The final exam will be on Thursday 5/28 and Friday 5/29 during class.

Announcement: makeup quizzes

2009-05-08T13:27:00.000-04:00

If you took less than four of the five quizzes during the AP review unit, you have to take some makeup quizzes. (I'll read a list of students who need to do makeups during class on Fri. 5/8. If you are absent for that class and are unsure of your status, e-mail me.)

These makeup quizzes must be taken between Mon. 5/11 and Thu. 5/14. You can take them by seeing the teacher on duty in room 820 anytime during the school day, or seeing me in person after school any day except Wed. 5/13.

HW due Tue. 5/12

2009-05-08T13:05:00.000-04:00

There's no homework due Mon. 5/11 as our class falls during the AP Physics exams which many students are taking.

The homework due Tue. 5/12 is from the packet "13.3 Partial Derivatives," exercises 1-4, 5-29 odd, 35, 37-40, 45, 47, 90, 91. (Students present for class on Monday will have that class period to work on this assignment. All students should have it done before Tuesday.)

HW due Fri. 5/8

2009-05-07T13:05:00.001-04:00

In the handout packet "13.1 Introduction to Functions of Several Variables," exercises 31, 33, 35, 37, 43 (skip confirming), 45-48, 49-59 odd, 63-66.

No HW due Thu. 5/7

2009-05-05T00:01:00.001-04:00

The AP Calculus BC exam is on Wed. 5/6 in the morning. Good luck!

There's no homework due Thu. 5/7.

HW due Mon. 5/4 and Tue. 5/5

2009-05-01T10:36:00.004-04:00

Your homework is to review for the AP exam in whatever way is most useful to you, but one possibility would be to try the problems from the 2008 AP exam. (These were distributed on Friday, and are also on the AP site.)

Also: Class on Monday 5/4 will be an open question-and-answer session. Please bring at least one good question to ask, related to anything in the AP curriculum.

HW due Fri. 5/1

2009-04-30T10:30:00.000-04:00

Five AP problems about parametric, vector, and polar were distributed: 2007 BC-3, 2005 BC-2, 2007(Form B) BC 2, 2008(Form B) BC 1, and 2004(Form B) BC 1. (If you were absent, all of these can be found on the AP web site linked in the right column.) Do as many of these problems as needed, but feel free to spend your time differently if there are other topics where you are more in need of reviewing.

There will be one more review quiz on Friday. It may be on any topic from the AP curriculum.

HW due Thu. 4/30

2009-04-28T10:29:00.000-04:00

Handout problem set "Hyperbolic functions."

HW due Tue. 4/28

2009-04-27T14:22:00.004-04:00

Homework:

Mostly done in Monday's class, finish the last one for homework: Past AP problems related to power series and Taylor series: 2004(Form B) BC 2(d), 2007 BC 6, and 2007(Form B) BC 6.
Begin Monday night, OK to finish Tuesday night: Set of multiple-choice questions.

If you were absent Monday, you can find the AP problems on the official AP site (linked in the right column), but you'll need to get the multiple choice questions when you see me.

There will be more one-question review quizzes this week. If we have one on Tuesday, it will be from the general area of power series and/or Taylor series.

no HW due Mon. 4/27

2009-04-17T14:21:00.000-04:00

There was no homework over the vacation.

HW due Fri. 4/17, Test Fri. 4/17

2009-04-16T00:01:00.000-04:00

In class Thursday, we will work on textbook 8.4 exercises 49-53.

On Friday, we will have a short test on the newly-introduced material of the past few weeks: differential equations and their applications (handout packets 11.6/11.8/11.10), and integration using trigonometric substitutions (part of textbook 8.4).

HW due Thu. 4/16

2009-04-14T15:21:00.003-04:00

Do these problems about symbolic integration using trigonometric substitutions: textbook 8.4 exercises 35-46.

HW due Tue. 4/14

2009-04-13T15:18:00.000-04:00

Finish this set of AP problems begun in class: 2007 AB 3, 2006 AB 3, 2005 AB 4, 2005 (Form B) BC 4. These are non-applied problems involving integration and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.

Tuesday we'll have another one-question quiz in the general area of integration and its applications.

HW due Mon. 4/13

2009-04-10T15:15:00.003-04:00

Finish this batch of past AP problems begun in class, all involving applications of integration:

2005 AB 2, BC 2006 2
2006 (Form B) BC 4, 2006 BC 4
2004 BC 2, 2006 (Form B) BC 1

The problems in each pair are similar, so if your time is limited due to holidays, do one problem from each pair.

We will have more one-problem quizzes on Mon. 4/13 and Tue. 4/14, each related to recently-reviewed topics.

HW due Thu. 4/10

2009-04-06T15:13:00.003-04:00

Note that class was cancelled on Tuesday 4/8.

The homework due Thursday 4/10 is from handout packet "11.10 Second-Order Differential Equations: Oscillations," problems 1-23.

HW due Mon. 4/6

2009-04-03T00:01:00.001-04:00

In the handout packet "11.8 Systems of Differential Equations" do problems 1-17.