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Calculus Topics

1) The document outlines the main topics covered in a calculus course, including limits, derivatives, integrals, and their applications. 2) Limits cover properties, calculations, and continuity. Derivatives cover definitions, rules for elementary functions, implicit differentiation, and higher derivatives. 3) Integrals cover antiderivatives, integration techniques like substitution, and applications of integrals like finding distances and velocities. Definite integrals connect to area, average values, and accumulated change.

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Calculus Topics

1) The document outlines the main topics covered in a calculus course, including limits, derivatives, integrals, and their applications. 2) Limits cover properties, calculations, and continuity. Derivatives cover definitions, rules for elementary functions, implicit differentiation, and higher derivatives. 3) Integrals cover antiderivatives, integration techniques like substitution, and applications of integrals like finding distances and velocities. Definite integrals connect to area, average values, and accumulated change.

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C A L C U L U S

10% Limits Applications of the Derivative


• Statement of properties, e.g., limit of a • Slope of a curve at a point
constant, sum, product, or quotient • Tangent lines and linear approximation
• Limit calculations, including limits • Curve sketching: increasing and
sin x decreasing functions; relative and
involving infinity, e.g., lim = 1, absolute maximum and minimum points;
x →0 x
1 sin x concavity; points of inflection
lim is nonexistent, and lim =0
x →0 x x →∞ x • Extreme value problems
• Continuity • Velocity and acceleration of a particle
moving along a line
50% Differential Calculus • Average and instantaneous rates of change
The Derivative • Related rates of change
• Definitions of the derivative
f ( x) − f (a) 40% Integral Calculus
e.g., f ′( a ) = lim Antiderivatives and Techniques of Integration
x→a x−a
f ( x + h) − f ( x) • Concept of antiderivatives
and f ′( x ) = lim • Basic integration formulas
h →0 h
• Derivatives of elementary functions • Integration by substitution (use of
• Derivatives of sums, products, and identities, change of variable)
quotients (including tan x and cot x )
Applications of Antiderivatives
• Derivative of a composite function (chain
rule), e.g., sin ( ax + b ) , ae kx , ln ( k x ) • Distance and velocity from acceleration
with initial conditions
• Implicit differentiation
• Solutions of y′ = k y and applications to
• Derivative of the inverse of a function
growth and decay
(including arcsin x and arctan x )
• Higher order derivatives The Definite Integral
• Corresponding characteristics of graphs of • Definition of the definite integral as the
f, f ′, and f ′′ limit of a sequence of Riemann sums and
• Statement of the Mean Value Theorem; approximations of the definite integral
applications and graphical illustrations using areas of rectangles
• Relation between differentiability and • Properties of the definite integral
continuity • The Fundamental Theorem:
• Use of L’Hospital’s Rule (quotient and d x
indeterminate forms) dx a ∫f ( t ) dt = f ( x ) and
b


∫a F ′( x ) dx = F ( b ) − F ( a )
Applications of the Definite Integral
• Average value of a function on an interval
• Area, including area between curves
• Other (e.g., accumulated change from a
rate of change)

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