Wednesday 20 March 2019, Week 8

As mentioned in previous weeks, I need to postpone the lecture of Tuesday 19 March, Week 8.

This will now take place the next night, Wednesday 20 March 2019.

Two students have indicated that they cannot attend this class: I will record as much of the class as possible but my camcorder usually doesn’t have the battery nor memory to record all 2.5 hours… but I’ll do my best.

Outlook

As mentioned briefly in Week 6, for most students, Chapters 1 and 2 are easier and you will want to do well on them. Things are going to get a little harder for the rest of the semester and you will want to try and do homework (see below) regularly.

Week 7

We did a quick revision of differentiation before looking at Parametric Differentiation and starting to look at Related Rates.

If you want to look back here are two videos:

We mentioned briefly the Reuleaux Triangle and it’s use in the “Harry Watt Square Drill Bit”. See here for an animation of how this works.

Week 8

We will finish looking at Related Rates and then look at Implicit Differentiation.

Homework Exercises

If you do any of the suggested exercises you can give them to me for correction. Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email or even better on this webpage.

I recommend strongly that everyone completes P.102, Q.1.

After that you can look at:

  • P.102, Q. 2
  • P.112, Q. 1-5

If you want to do more again, look at P.113, Q.6-9

Test 2

Test 2, worth 15% and based on Chapter 3, will probably take place Week 11, 9 April. It might have to be pushed out to after Easter if we don’t make good progress on Chapter 3.

Test 1 Results

…and marking scheme have been emailed to you.

CIT Mathematics Exam Papers

These are not always found in your programme selection — most of the time you will have to look here.

Student Resources

Please see the Student Resources tab on the top of this page for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.

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