Course introduction

• Get organized for the course
• Welcome, introductions, and class description
• What’s calculus?
• What’s a function? A family of functions?
• Why use computers?

Resources

• Read Macalester’s document  Which Calculus Class Should You Take?
• Try to login to piazza. If successful, reply to the post “Introduce yourself” with your own self-introduction
• Download Mathematica here for use throughout the semester
• Wolfram Alpha
• Textbook: 1.2-1.6
• Suggested problems: 1.2: 15, 29; 1.3: 1; 1.4: 15, 35;  1.5: 43; 1.6: 45.

In class

• Welcome, introductions, and class description
• Answer questions about  the course, including placement in calculus
• Review useful families of functions: linear, exponential, power, trigonometric