1. MATH 1830 Applications of Calculus
11/20/2018
MATH 1830
Applications of Calculus
for Business and Life Science Majors
368 Dunn Hall
Office Hours: 11:30–1:30 Monday through Thursday
D. P. Dwiggins, PhD
Department of
Mathematical Sciences
August 27, 2018
August 27, 2018

2. Course Outline A Review of Functional Analysis
Applications of Differential Calculus
First and Second Derivative Tests
Optimization and Related Rates
Linearization and Quadratic Approximation
Applications of Integral Calculus
Geometric Calculations
Probability Theory
Other Applications
Marginal Analysis
Consumer’s and Producer’s Surplus
Population Growth Models
Learning Curves
Chemical Reactions

3. MyMathLab
Textbook: Calculus and its Applications, Bittinger and Ellenbogen, Ninth Edition
Published by Pearson, who has since come out with the Tenth and Eleventh editions of the textbook
mymathlab.com directs you to the publisher’s website, which has electronic versions of 10th and 11th but not 9th
The class code for MATH 1830 is dwiggins
There will be ten online assignments leading to an online homework score which may be used to raise your average at the end of the semester.
The website also contains tutorials and other useful material.
If you have a hard copy of the textbook, you do not need to purchase access to the publisher’s website, other than for the reasons listed above.

4. Grading Procedure
Course Evaluation: There will be four 100-point tests and a 100-point Daily Average, which is based on quizzes and homework.
The lowest of these five 100-point scores will be dropped, and the next lowest may be replaced by the final exam score, if higher.
Grade Calculation: The final exam is also worth 100 points which, along with the quizzes and tests, gives a total of 500 points.
Divide the resulting total by 5 to obtain the semester average. If you complete the publisher’s online assignments and this homework score is higher than the average computed above, then I will add in the online homework score, giving a total of 600 points, dividing by 6 to give a higher semester average.

5. R.1-3 (Review Chapter) Functions and Graphs

6. Application of Exponential Functions: Compound Interest

7. R.1-3 (Review Chapter) Practice Exercises
Note: the following page numbers are from the ninth edition
of the textbook
page 11: # 1-18
page 13: # 29-32
page 25: # 19-23
page 26: # 49-59
page 37: # 33-46
Tenth Edition Page Numbers
page 10
pages 11-12
pages 21-22
page 23
page 32