Review for Math Xb Final Exam

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Course-wide Review Sessions

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Practice Problems

Click on the links shown below to download sets of practice problems. The current set of practice problems concentrates on series and their applications. Within the next few days further problems (on trigonometry, integration, applications of integrals, and differential equations) will be posted to this site.

Download Problems Problem Set Concentrates On...
Problem Set 1 Series. Geometric series. Applications of geometric series (e.g. mortgage calculations). Infinite series. Convergence tests. Setting up series to model situations.
Area under a curve. Integral notation. Interpreting the meaning of an area under a curve. Calculating the area under a curve using a graphing calculator. Calculating the area under a curve using geometric figures. Calculating the area under a curve using antiderivatives. Calculating antiderivatives via short-cut rules. Checking to see if a given function is an antiderivative or not. Application of integrals: Average Value.
Problem Set 3 Trigonometry. Using right-angle triangle definitions of sine, cosine and tangent to model situations. Finding formulas for periodic function. Derivatives and integrals of trigonometric functions. Solving equations involving sine and cosine. Inverse trigonometric functions. Derivatives and integrals involving inverse trigonometric functions.
Problem Set 4 Differential equations. Locating and classifying equilibrium solutions. Sketching slope fields. Using a slope field to sketch the graph of a function. Euler's method. Deciding whether estimates from Euler's method are over- or under-estimates. Verifying symbolic solutions for differential equations. Finding symbolic solutions using the technique of Separation of Variables. Symbolic solution of the Logistic Equation.
Problem Set 5 This is just a few additional problems for people who have already completed everything on Problem sets 1-4. The problems included here are on u-substitution, formulating and solving differential equations (Separation of Variables) and volumes of revolution.

Practice Problems from Math Xb Midterms

The sets of practice problems that were posted on this web site before the midterms are given below.