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At
the completion of this course, each student
should be able to:
- Construct functions and analyze them for continuity;
- Find the limits of certain functions, as the independent variable approaches some fixed numbers
- Understand the definition of the derivative, and master the techniques of differentiation, explicit and implicit;
- Use the chain rule to find derivatives of composite functions;
- Understand the connection between the sign of the first derivative of a function and whether that function is increasing or decreasing;
- Determine the concavity of the graph of a function, depending on the sign of the second derivative;
- Set up, and solve, problems involving related rates; (maximum or minimum);
- Find critical points for a function, and use them to find extreme values
- Understand the Mean Value Theorem, analytically and geometrically;
- Find anti-derivatives (indefinite integrals) by inspection, or by substitution;
- Evaluate definite integrals by using the Fundamental Theorem of Integral Calculus;
- Find the areas between curves by integration;
- Use integration to solve problems of accumulation, via Riemann sums.
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