Rutgers University   MAT 640:151 - Calculus I for the Mathematical and Physical Sciences
  Course Lectures and Notes

INSTRUCTION
Professor: Alex Kontorovich
Office: Hill 630
E-mail: alexk@math.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-2 pm. Or by appointment.


WEEK LECTURE 1 LECTURE 2 NOTES/READINGS
Week 1
9/06, 9/09
Lecture 1: Overview
How do you do, fellow kids? (30 Rock)

Lecture 2: Pre-Calc Review
Week 2
9/13, 9/16
Lecture 3: Average and Instantaneous Rates of Change, Limits
What is a Radian?

Lecture 4: Limits, Continuity
Week 3
9/20, 9/23
Lecture 5: Horizontal Asymptotes

Lecture 6: Review
Week 4
9/27, 9/30
MIDTERM 1 Lecture 7: Intro to Derivatives

Week 5
10/04, 10/07
Lecture 8: Derivative Rules

Lecture 9: More Derivatives and Applications
Week 6
10/11, 10/14
Video lost :( Lecture 10: Chain Rule, Implicit Differentiation

Lecture 11: Derivatives of Inverse Functions, Trig/Exp/Log
Week 7
10/18, 10/21
Lecture 12: Related Rates

Lecture 13: REVIEW
Week 8
10/25, 10/28
MIDTERM 2 Lecture 14: Linearization
Week 9
11/01, 11/04
Lecture 15: Max/Min, Mean Value Theorem

On How Definitions Change Over Time!

Lecture 16: Curve Sketching

Week 10
11/08, 11/11
Lecture 17: Antiderivatives, l'Hopital's (Bernoulli's) Rule

Lecture 18: Optimization Applications, Indefinite Integral
Week 11
11/15, 11/18
MIDTERM 3 Lecture 19: Review
Week 12
11/23
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Lecture 20: "Off the beaten path"

For fun: History of Calculus

Tom Lehrer

A "history" of Calculus

3blue1brown

Newton's Binomial Theorem and Application to Pi

Something a little different (by popular demand)...
Week 13
11/29, 12/02
Lecture 21: Upper Sums

Lecture 22: Riemann Sum/Integral
Week 14
12/06, 12/09
Lecture 23: Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

Lecture 24: Integration techniques, u-substition
Week 15
12/13, 12/16
REVIEW SESSION Thurs 12/15
10 am - 5 pm (I will be there 1-3pm) in Hill 114

FINAL EXAM (12-3pm, in PH-111; ARRIVE BY 11:45)