MATH-1300-LN01&WBP01

Welcome to the permanent home page for Sections LN01 and WBP01 of MATH-1300 (Precalculus) at Southeast Community College in the Fall semester of 2024. I am Toby Bartels, your instructor.

Course administration

For Section LN01

For Section WBP01

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 Precalculus written by Sullivan and 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.

Graphs and functions

  1. General review:
  2. Graphing review:
  3. Graphing lines:
  4. Systems of equations:
  5. Systems of inequalities:
  6. Functions:
  7. Graphs of functions:
  8. Properties of functions:
  9. Word problems with functions:
Quiz 1, covering the material in Problem Sets 1–9, is due on September 9 Monday.

Operations on functions

  1. Linear functions:
  2. Examples of functions:
  3. Composite functions:
  4. Inverse functions:
  5. Coordinate transformations:
  6. Quadratic functions:
  7. Applications of quadratic functions:
  8. Power functions:
  9. Graphing polynomials:
Quiz 2, covering the material in Problem Sets 10–18, is due on September 23 Monday.

Rational and logarithmic functions

  1. Advanced factoring:
  2. Imaginary roots:
  3. Rational functions:
  4. Inequalities:
  5. Exponential functions:
  6. Logarithmic functions:
  7. Properties of logarithms:
  8. Logarithmic equations:
  9. Compound interest:
  10. Applications of logarithms:
Quiz 3, covering the material in Problem Sets 19–28, is on October 16 Wednesday.

Trigonometric functions

  1. Circles:
  2. Angles:
  3. Length and area with radians:
  4. The trigonometric operations:
  5. Right triangles:
  6. Special angles:
  7. The trigonometric functions:
  8. Basic sinusoidal graphs:
  9. More basic graphs:
Quiz 4, covering the material in Problem Sets 23–34, is on October 23 Monday.

Analytic trigonometry

  1. Transformations of trigonometric functions:
  2. Sinusoidal functions:
  3. Inverse trigonometric operations:
  4. More inverse trigonometric operations:
  5. Sum-angle formulas:
  6. Sum–product formulas:
  7. Half-angle formulas:
  8. Simplifying trigonometric expressions:
  9. Trigonometric equations:
  10. Tricky trigonometric equations:
Quiz 5, covering the material in Problem Sets 35–47, is on November 13 Monday.

Applications of trigonometry

  1. Solving right triangles:
  2. The Law of Sines:
  3. The Law of Cosines:
  4. Area of triangles:
  5. Applications of solving triangles:
  6. Harmonic motion:
  7. Polar coordinates:
  8. Equations in polar coordinates:
  9. Graphing in polar coordinates:
  10. Complex numbers:
  11. Vectors:
  12. Vectors and angles:
Quiz 6, covering the material in Problem Sets 48–59, is on December 4 Monday.

Quizzes

  1. Graphs and functions:
  2. Operations on functions:
  3. Rational and logarithmic functions:
  4. Trigonometric functions:
  5. Analytic trigonometry:
  6. Applications of trigonometry:

Final exam

There is a comprehensive final exam, which for section LN01 is on December 11 Wednesday, in our normal classroom at the normal time but lasting until 1:40 PM. (You can also arrange to take it at a different time December 9–13.) To speed up grading at the end of the term, the exam is multiple choice and filling in blanks, with no partial credit.

For the exam, you may use one sheet of notes that you wrote yourself. 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 consists of questions similar in style and content to those in the practice exam (DjVu TBA).

For Section WBP01, the final exam will be proctored. If you're near any of the three main SCC campuses (Lincoln, Beatrice, Milford), then you can schedule the exam at one of the Testing Centers; it will automatically be ready for you at Lincoln, but let me know if you plan to take it at Beatrice or Milford, so that I can have it ready for you there. If you have access to a computer with a webcam and mike, then you can take it using ProctorU for a small fee; let me know if you want to do this so that I can send you an invitation to schedule it. If you're near Lincoln, then we may be able to schedule a time for you to take the exam with me in person. If none of these will work for you, then contact me as soon as possible!


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