At the end of this class, you are expected to be able to do the following –
Be able to convert units
Understand compound interest, including continuous compounding
Be able to compute relative and absolute changes
Understand how to model exponential/linear growth or decay
Understand percentages.
Be able to give equations of linear growth or decay from graph or data
Be able to use half-lives and doubling times
Understand mortgage payments and savings plans
Use Venn diagrams to test for validity of arguments and to evaluate data
Understand and be able to use scaling laws
Compute Volume and Surface Area and understand how to use these concepts in real life settings
Know the basics of logistic growth
These skills will be tested on the final.
The final is comprehensive, use Review I, Review II, Test I and Test II to study for the earlier material. Pay particular attention to the Test I and Test II Solutions. Use the quiz to be given Tuesday along with homework assigned on sections 9A, 9B and 10A to prepare for those sections.
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Section |
Know! |
Problems |
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9A |
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Exercises – 29, 31 |
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9B |
Understand Linear Models -
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Examples – 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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10A |
Be able to calculate volumes and surface areas and use and apply these concepts along with scaling laws to real world problems. Memorize formulae in Tables 10.2 and 10.3 |
Example – 5, 7, 8 + assigned homework |
Make sure you study the Carbon Dating, Kilowatt-Hour and Blood Alcohol Content problems from the first two test. The final will be have similar questions from the earlier material.