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All about Calculus!

Instructions: Please go through the activity and finish ALL the sections. In each section you
will be given a series of questions that you will answer. You will find the answers in the links
that will be provided in that section. Turn in your assignment when finished.

Use the following website to answer the questions below: Math is Fun Calculus
https://www.mathsisfun.com/calculus/

1. Where does the word ‘Calculus’ come from?

a. Why are we looking at the small pieces instead of the whole picture?
b. What can we interpret from looking at small pieces of information? What can we gain from it?
Please explain in your own words.(You won’t find the answer in the website, I am asking YOU for
your thoughts.)
2. State the different types of Calculus and state what they are used for.

Click on the “Derivative Plotter” and answer the following, once done, please play around with the
plotter and try out different functions! Then answer the very last question once you’re done.:
3. Once on the “Derivative Plotter” play around with it and try to see if there is a pattern with the
functions. Pay close attention to the instructions given on the website!:
c. Using the function that is given to you, please try to figure out its derivative function, 𝑔(𝑥).
d. What can you analyze from the functions when the lines coincide with each other?
e. Is there a pattern that you that is noticeable when plotting different functions?

Once finished go back and answer the following:

4. What are the most common derivative rules in Calculus?
f. State the formal definition of the Power Rule.
g. What is an easy way to memorize the Power Rule?
h. State the formal definition of the Product Rule.
i. How can the Product Rule be written?(Hint: Notation)

Once finished go back and answer the following, scroll down until you are in the “Integration” Section:
5. What is Integration?
6. What are the Integration Rules?
7. How are solids used in Integration?
j. What’s the difference between a Washer and a Disk?
k. How many functions are used in a Disk?
l. How many functions are used in a Washer?

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE! Based on what we learned, without any help, please solve the following:
Find the derivative for the following functions of x:
i. 3𝑥 !
 ii. 𝑥
iii. 1000000000000000
iv. cos(𝑥) sin(𝑥)
v. 20𝑥 ∗ sin (𝑥)
Find the Integral of the following functions of x:
vi. 1
vii. 2𝑥 !
viii. 𝑥
iv. 𝑐𝑜𝑠(𝑥)
Plot and solve:
Use disk method: x. Plot 𝑦 = 𝑥 and rotate about the origin
Use Washer Method: Plot 𝑦 = 𝑥 and 𝑦 = 𝑥 ! , then rotate about the origin.

Use the following website for the questions below: Reimann Sum Khan Academy
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ap-calculus-ab/ab-integration-new/ab-6-2/v/simple-riemann-
approximation-using-rectangles

Click on the website given above and then first start by watching the introduction.
8. Please give me your definition of the word approximation
a. What does approximation mean?
b. What shapes do we use for the Reimann Sum?
c. Are approximations always accurate?
d. What is an overestimate?
e. What is an underestimate?
f. Which one is more accurate?
9. What is a left estimate? What is a right estimate?
g. What’s the difference between the 2?
h. Analyze the importance of having two different kinds of estimates.
10. Do a couple of the practice problems from the website.
11. What is the Midpoint Rule?
i. What can we gain from using the Midpoint Rule?
j. Analyze the importance of having a Left-hand approximation, Right-hand approximation, and the
Midpoint Rule.
k. Which approximation is the most accurate out of the three that we just learned?
12. What is the Trapezoidal Rule?
l. Why are trapezoids being used? Why do you think we don’t use any other shape?
m. Now that we have seen the different approximations, which one is the most accurate?
13. Please do the Trapezoidal Rule and the Midpoint Rule practice problems given on the website.

Use the website and answer the following questions: L'Hospital's Rule and Indeterminate Form
https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/m408n/CurrentWeb/LM4-4-2.php
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14. Why do you guys think we can’t evaluate "?
a. What form is the fraction from the previous problem in?
b. What does it mean to be a problem that is in indeterminate form?
c. How many indeterminate terms are there? List all of them.
d. State the formal definition of L’Hospital’s Rule.
15. What is an Indeterminant Quotient?
e. What is an Indeterminant Product?
f. How can we deal with both Indeterminant Forms?
16. How can we recognize equations that are in Indeterminant Form?
17. How does an Indeterminant Power look like?

BONUS QUESTIONS:
Solve the following:
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19. #
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20. $#
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21. lim
%→" % #