MA 120 Assignment Sheet
1) Review handout: Page 5, #2, #4
page 11 #1-9
page 7, #1-7
page 8 #1 -10 page 9b 1-10
2) Functional Notation and Domain: Page 12: 15, 19, 23, 25, 55
Page 25: 13, 21, 33
3) Linear Functions: page 63: 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17, 21, 25
4) The difference quotient and finding the derivative using the definition of the
derivative.
Page 82: 65-75 odd
*Check youtube for the three videos concerning the above topic.
Search for: murdick definition of the derivative
5) Finding the derivative using the power rule (just arithmetic): page 80: 1-23 odd
6) Finding the equation of the tangent line. Page 80, 33-40 all (do not use the
definition of the derivative for this, but use the power rule)
7) Find the derivative using the sum, constant and general power rules.
Page 106: 1- 37 odd
8) More on tangent lines. Page 106: 43, 44
9) Second Derivatives. Page 114: 11-19 odd and 33
10)Section 3.1 Product and Quotient rules. Page 205, 1-27 odd
Test #1
11) Marginal Cost and Equations of Motion : page 122, 1,5,7,9,13
12) Polynomial and Rational Inequalities: Handout
13) Graphing Techniques
Section 2.1 , read 2.1 and do problems on page 138: 1-18 all
Section, 2.2 read 2.2 and do page 147: 1-18 all
14) Section 2.3, Elementary Graphing Techniques, Page 159: 1-39, every other odd
problem.
15) Graphing Concluded: Section 2.4, page 165, 1-31 odd
16) Optimization: sec. 2.5 page 172 11, 13, 15, 21, 23, 24
Test #2
17) Rules of Exponents (review) sec 4.1 page 233 1- 25 odd (do as many as you need
to)
18) Derivative of the Exponential function: sec 4.2 page 238 13-41 odd
19) The Chain Rule Applied to the Exponential Function: sec 4.3 page 242 1-25 odd
20) Properties of ln(x) (a review) sec 4.6
1- 17 odd
21) Derivatives of ln(x): page 251: 1-19 odd
22) Applications of the Exponential Function, sec 5.1 page 266 1,3, 5, 9, 13, 17
23) Compound Interest, Section 5.2, page 273: 1, 3, 5, 11, 21, 27
Test #3
24) Antidifferentiation: page 304: 1-17 odd
25) Antidifferentiation: page 304: 25- 45 odd