Notice to visitors

I just want you to know that comments will not be noticed, because the class this was written during is over and my schedule is rather tight.

Feel free to read this and send links to it to anyone who could benefit from it.

Thank you,

David Nemati

Tips on How to Prepare for the Final

One of the best ways to prepare for the final is to redo your previous tests.

Get the problem sheets from the first two tests out, and do all the problems again.

Since this is not official, it's not wrong to check in the book when you're stuck, and indeed that could be more help than harm.

However, try after you've done them all to do at least the ones you referenced to the book for over again, this time without referring.

If you have to keep on referring, you would probably want to read everything important over again, and make sure it all makes sense.

If you can do some memorization, that would also be likely to help you - it wasn't until the last minute - literally - that I remembered that the summation of u^n/n! is e^u - I almost missed that problem on today's test, and I think more memorization can help prevent those dilemmas.

Need Polar Graph Paper?

I just Googled "polar graph paper" and the top result was perfect - a website that creates a PDF of the graph paper that fits exactly what you want (number of spokes, number of concentric circles, color, etc) - with a pretty good default - and then when you're done, you simply click a button and you download the PDF. All completely free.

Here it is:

Free Online Graph Paper

What to Focus Your Study on for the Second Test

The second exam is coming up, and Professor Alikhanyan has announced what it will contain:

1 about arc length (9.1)

1 about area of surface of revolution (9.2)

0 about applications (9.3-9.5)

0 about differential equations (ch 10 was skipped)

4 about parametric equations and their calculus (11.1, 11.2)

2 about polars and their calculus (11.3, 11.4)

1 about conics (11.5)

1 about conics in polar (11.6)

A Late Start

Welcome to the blog for our class!

I will try to occasionally make posts about what we are learning in class, tricks I use to remember things, and other useful things.

If anyone else is interested and might have a few minutes to spare in the next three weeks, please ask me in class and I will make sure that you are emailed an invitation to become an author of this blog, someone who can make posts.

(Do not worry about spam; I will not make your email address known to anyone, and only people who are authors of this blog can see your email address if you become an author; you can only become an author by receiving an invitation email and following the link).

I hope this blog helps anyone who needs the help.

If you need help with things having to do with Calculus 1, click here.

- David Nemati