MATH-1200-WBP81

Welcome to the permanent home page for Section WBP81 of MATH-1200 (Trigonometry) at Southeast Community College in the second half of the Spring term of 2022. I am Toby Bartels, your instructor.

Course administration

Contact information

Feel free to send a message at any time, even nights and weekends (although I'll be slower to respond then).

Readings

The official textbook for the course is the 11th Edition of Algebra & Trigonometry by Sullivan published by Prentice-Hall (Pearson). You automatically get an online version of this textbook through Canvas, although you can use a print version instead if you like. This comes with access to Pearson MyLab, integrated into Canvas, on which many of the assignments appear.

Basic trigonometry

  1. General review:
  2. Circles:
  3. Angles:
  4. Length and area with radians:
  5. Right triangles:
  6. Special angles:
  7. Applications with acute angles:
  8. General angles:
  9. Circular trigonometry:
  10. The trigonometric functions:
Quiz 1, covering the material in Problem Sets 1–10, is available on April 1 Friday and due on April 4 Monday.

Advanced trigonometry

  1. Basic sinusoidal graphs:
  2. More basic graphs:
  3. Coordinate transformations:
  4. Transformations of trigonometric functions:
  5. Sinusoidal functions:
  6. Inverse trigonometric operations:
  7. More inverse trigonometric operations:
  8. Sum-angle formulas:
  9. Half-angle formulas:
  10. Simplifying trigonometric expressions:
  11. Trigonometric equations:
  12. Tricky trigonometric equations:
Quiz 2, covering the material in Problem Sets 11–22, is available on April 15 Friday and due on April 18 Monday.

Applications

  1. Solving right triangles:
  2. The Law of Sines:
  3. The Law of Cosines:
  4. Area of triangles:
  5. Applications of solving triangles:
  6. Polar coordinates:
  7. Equations in polar coordinates:
  8. Graphing in polar coordinates:
  9. Vectors:
  10. Vectors and angles:
Quiz 3, covering the material in Problem Sets 23–32, is available on April 29 Friday and due on May 2 Monday.

Quizzes

  1. Basic trigonometry:
  2. Advanced trigonometry:
  3. Applications:

Final exam

There will be a comprehensive final exam at the end of the term. (You'll arrange to take it sometime from April 29 to May 5.) To speed up grading at the end of the term, the exam will be multiple choice, with no partial credit.

For the exam, you may use one sheet of notes that you wrote yourself; please take a scan or a picture of this (both sides) and submit it on Canvas. However, you may not use your book or anything else not written by you. You certainly should not talk to other people! Calculators are allowed, although you shouldn't really need one, but not communication devices (like cell phones).

The exam will consist of questions similar in style and content to those in the practice final exam (DjVu). The practice final exam counts as a problem set, so be sure to attempt it and let me know how you did.

The final exam will be proctored. If you have access to a computer with a webcam, then you can schedule a time with me to take the exam in a Zoom meeting. If you're near Lincoln, then we can schedule a time for you to take the exam in person. You can also take it in the Testing Center on the main Lincoln campus or in Beatrice or Milford. If none of these will work for you, then contact me as soon as possible to make alternate arrangements. When it's scheduled, you can take the exam on Canvas.


This web page and the files linked from it (except for the official syllabus) were written by Toby Bartels, last edited on 2022 May 2. Toby reserves no legal rights to them.

The permanent URI of this web page is https://tobybartels.name/MATH-1200/2022SP2/.

HTML 5