Fall 2014

MATH 1050-006 (College Algebra)

Meets on M,W,F 15:00-16:20 M LIB 1130

Instructor: Honglu Fan. Office Hours: 11:50-12:40pm, Thursday or by appointment

Syllabus

• Syllabus

Quizzes and tests

• Practice midterm 1
• Solution to practice 1
• Note on applying graph transformations
• Review notes
• Practice midterm 2
• Solution 2
• Practice midterm 3
• Solution 3
• Solution to the review questions

Textbook as a single file:

• Complete Textbook

Textbook as separated files:

Beginnings

• Sets and Numbers
• Rules for Numbers
• Solving Some Simple Equations
• Functions

Discrete Mathematics

• Sequences
• Sum and Series
• Counting I
• Counting II

Back to Functions

• More on Functions
• Intro to Graphs
• Graph Transformations
• Inverse Functions
• n-th Roots

Polynomials

• Basics of Polynomials
• Division
• Roots and Factors
• Constant and Linear Polynomials
• Quadratic Polynomials
• Factoring Polynomials
• Graphing Polynomials

Exponential Functions

• Exponential Functions

Rational Functions

• Rational Functions

Logarithms

• Logarithms
• Exponential and Logarithmic Equations

Piecewise Defined Functions

• Piecewise Defined Functions

Linear Algebra

• Linear Equations in Two Variables
• Substitution
• Linear Equations in Three Variables
• Rows and Columns
• Vectors and Scalars
• 2x2 Matrices
• 3x3 Matrices
• Determinants and Inverse Matrices
• Matrix Equations