MCS-121 - Calculus I
Fall 2004
Review for Exam 2
General Rules
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You are allowed one (and only one) 3 by 5 note card with anything you wish
written on both sides for use during the exam.
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No other notes or books are allowed at the exam.
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You must have your graphing calculator with you, with angular measure set
to radian mode.
Suggested Exam Study Tactics
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Look over your old homework assignments and in-class exercises. See
if you can write solutions to the exercises that caused you the most trouble
without looking at your previous solutions. If there are certain
types of problems you never figured out or still cannot do, get help from
your instructor, other students or the tutors so that you know how to do
them when, not if , they show up on the exam. (Always
keep in mind Murphy's Law of Testing: Any test will prominently
feature precisely the types of questions you hoped it would not.)
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Do a few of the suggested review problems at the end of the chapter.
Answers are posted outside your instructor's office.
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For each section of the text that will be covered on the exam, write a
paragraph in your own words that describes the main ideas in the section,
why these ideas are important, and how you can use the ideas to solve problems.
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Think carefully about what you want to write on your one note card.
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Read the review sheet. (postscript) (pdf)
Topics covered on Exam 2
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Exam 2 will not cover Chapter 2, 3.1-3.5 explicitly, but we do expect
that you are familiar with that material, since much of this newer material
depends on it.
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3.6, 3.9, 3.10
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4.1, 4.3-4.5
Suggested Review Problems
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p153:
- 1 (estimate (1.1)^.5 and 4^.5, overestimates or underestimates?)
- 3 (estimate 1/.9, over or under?)
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p158: 5, 7,15, 17, 19
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pp159-161: 77, 78, 80
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p. 195: 10-11
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pp212-214: 1-8, 11, 15, 16, 22-25, 31
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pp216-217: 1-8,18,20-24
Last modified: 11/13/04