AP BC Calculus (4 hours per week)

The Main Books Source:

Finney, Ross L., Franklin Demana, Bert Waits, and Daniel Kennedy. Calculus: Graphical,
Numerical, Algebraic. AP Edition. Fourth Edition. Pearson.2012
Supplemental Books Source:
S.P. Thompson Calculus Made Easy. Second Edition Enlarged. The Macmillan
Company, New York, 1943 (online version)
P. Dawkins. Calculus I. Complete Practice Problems (online version)
Course Revision:
Shirley O. Hockett, M.A. and David Bock, M.S. Barrons AP Calculus 2008

Week
1

Chapter

L1-2 Chapter8.
Sections 8.1-8.2.
Application of
Definite Integrals
pp.383-402

L3-4 Chapter 8
Sections 8.3-8.4
Application of
Definite Integrals
pp.403-422

L5 Chapter 8
Section 8.5
Application of
Definite Integrals
pp.423-433
L6-7 Chapter 9
Sections 9.1-9.2
Sequences,
LHopital Rule and
Improper Integral
pp.439-456
L8 Chapter 9
Sections 9.3
Sequences,
LHopital Rule and
Improper Integral
pp.457-462

L9 Chapter 9
Sections 9.4
Sequences,
LHopital Rule and
Improper Integral
pp.463-472

Contents

Critical Thinking
Questions

Integral as Net Change. Linear motion

revisited. Consumption over time. Net
change from data. Work.
Areas in the Plane. Area between curves
Area enclosed by interesting curves.
Boundaries with changing function.
Integrating with respect to . Saving
time with geometry formulas.
Volumes. Volume as an integral. Square
cross section. Circular cross section.
Cylindrical shells. Other cross sections
Lengths of Curves. A sine wave. Length
of smooth curve. Vertical tangents,
corners and cusps.

pp.389-393 #11;
17-20; 27

Applications from Science and

Statistics. Work revisited. Fluid force
and fluid pressure. Normal probabilities

Sequences. Defining a sequence.

Arithmetic and geometric sequences
Graphing a sequence. Limit a sequence
LHopital Rule. Indeterminate form 0/0.
Indeterminate forms /
and
. Intermediate forms
Related rates of grows. Comparing rate
of grows. Using LHopital rule to
compare grows rates. Sequential versus
binary search

Improper Integrals. Infinite limits of

integration. Integrands with infinite
discontinuities.

pp.399-402 #9;
10; 13; 14;
36-38; 43

pp.410-415 #2;
7-10; 26-28; 43;
48; 49
pp.419-422
#11-15; 22-24

pp.429-433 #12;
17; 23; 24; 31;
32

pp.445-447 #19;
21; 31-40
pp.454-456 #27;
33-52 (even)

pp.461-462
#15-20; 35-38;
40; 45

pp.471-473
#35-42; 55

L10-11 Chapter 10
Sections 10.1-10.2
Infinite Series
pp.477-498

4.

L12-13 Chapter 10
Section 10.3-10.4
Infinite Series
pp.499-516

L14-15 Chapter 10
Section 10.5
Infinite Series
pp.517-530

L16 Chapter 11
Section 11.1
Parametric
functions
pp.537-543
L17-18 Chapter 11
Sections 11.2-11.3
Parametric
functions
pp.544-566

Power Series. Geometric series

Representing functions by series.
Differentiation and integration.
Identifying a series
Taylor Series. Constructing a series.
Series for
and
. Beauty
bare. Maclain and Taylor series.
Combining Taylor series. Table of
Maclain series.
Taylors Theorem Taylor polynomials.
The remainder. Bounding the
remainder. Eulers formula
Radius of Convergence Convergence.
term test. Comparing nonnegative
series. Ratio test. Endpoint
convergence.
Testing Convergence at Endpoint.
Integral test. Harmonic series and
-series. Comparison tests. Alternating
series. Absolute and conditional
convergence. Intervals of convergence.
A world of caution.

Parametric functions. Parametric

curves in the plane. Slope and
concavity. Arc length. Cycloids

Vectors in the plane. Two-dimensional

vectors. Vector operations. Modeling
planar motion.. Velocity, acceleration
and speed. Displacement and distance
traveled.
Polar Functions. Polar coordinates.
Polar curves. Slopes of polar curves.
Areas enclosed by polar curves. A small
polar gallery.

pp.485-487 #2;
21-24; 48; 51

pp.496-498
#5-12 even;
18-21; 35
pp.504-506
#11-13; 27-29;
35; 39
pp.515-516
#18-22; 36-42;
52-54
pp.528-530
#18-22; 46-50;
59; 62

pp.541-543
#13-16; 30-33;
36; 37; 43

pp.552-554 #25;
26; 33; 38; 51

pp.564-566
#26-30; 35-38;
42; 50; 52; 60