MATH 1153 Final exam information

Time: Thursday, December 9, 1:30 – 3:30pm

Place: GYM

Material covered:
Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4

Omit: sections 1.6, 1.7, 3.3, 3.6, 3.7, 4.4, 4.5, and 4.7, as well as any examples and
questions involving logarithms and trigonometric functions.

Office hours: (tentative –check MyLangara for updates)

Monday, December 6, my regular office hours
Tuesday, December 7, 10:30-11:30am (I might be available after 3:30pm as well, by
appointment)
Wednesday, December 8, 11am-1pm, 2-3:30pm
Thursday, December 9, 11:30am-1pm

or by appointment (email me at ctamas@langara.bc.ca)

I might be in my office at other times outside the posted hours; if I'm there, I'll be happy
to talk to you.

How to study for the final exam:

The final exam is cumulative. Make sure you understand and know all the examples/concepts
covered in class. Know your limits and the derivation rules.

Go over homework (including the online and written assignments, practice HW, and
questions from the material we covered during the last two weeks); quizzes, midterms; see if
you can do them (correctly) in a reasonable time; also, learn from your mistakes.

Exam and Quiz solutions, and answers to HW assignments are posted on MyLangara, as
well as a practice final and its solution. You can also access the answer keys for the online
assignments on WebAssign. If you have time, you might want to do some review problems.

I have also posted a practice final, another MATH1153_Summary file (Part 3), and a file with
optimization questions, as well as the solutions to those questions.

Formulas are not going to be provided; you need to remember them.

A note about the practice final: This is only a collection of problems for practice; the actual
final might not resemble it in structure or content. I would suggest you save it for the last few
days before the exam, after you studied everything, and use it as an actual test that you need
to finish in 2 hours. (#13a -Newtons' method- was not covered in class, so you may omit it.)

You should also do the True-False Quizzes at the end of each chapter. See the Exam
reviews on WebAssign; I am going to post the remaining TF questions as well.
Some concepts to review for the final
(see also the three MATH1153_Summary files on MyLangara):

• Domain of a function.
• Point-slope equations of straight lines.
• Composition of functions.
• Mathematical models (i.e. setting up story problems).
• Limits; limit laws; one-sided limits (including those involving absolute values);
infinite limits; various "tricks" we used in computing limits.
• Continuous functions; removable discontinuities.
• Definition of the derivative.
• Various rules for computing derivatives.
• Derivatives of polynomials, rational and exponential functions; chain rule.
• Derivative and the slope of a tangent line to the curve; horizontal tangent lines;
vertical tangent lines.
• Implicit differentiation.
• Critical numbers, local/absolute min/max; increasing/decreasing functions.
• Optimization (story) problems, both on closed and open intervals.
• Related rates problems.
• Position function; velocity, acceleration (including the stuff we covered from 4.9).
• Linear approximation formula and differentials.

• Higher derivatives (including implicit differentiation).

• Second derivative, inflection points; concavity; second derivative test for min/max.
• Vertical and horizontal asymptotes and limits as x goes to +/- infinity.
• Curve sketching techniques; relations between the graphs of f(x), f'(x) and f''(x).
• Antiderivatives and initial value problems; applications to motion problems
And a little more detail on topics from the last part of the course:

Chapter 3:

• Implicit differentiation
o Use it to find dy/dx, or for equations of tangent lines to curves defined implicitly
• Linear approximation (usually used to approximate values of a function) and
differentials (usually used to compute a measurement error)

Chapter 4:

• Related Rates
o If 2 or more variables are related, so are their rates with respect to time:
o When making your picture, distinguish true constants from given values of
variables
o For the true variables, identify the given and unknown rates, but do not plug in
any value of a variable until after the rates have been related (i.e. until after
differentiation)
• Determining the intervals where a function is increasing or decreasing (using the sign
of f ')
• Critical points; local extrema
o The first derivative test for finding local maxima and local minima
• Determining the intervals where a function is concave up or concave down (using the
sign of f '')
• Inflection points
o Happen when the function changes concavity (i.e. when the second derivative
changes sign)
o Having f''(c)=0 does not necessarily imply you have an inflection point at (c,f(c)).
You need to check it with a sign chart for f''(x). (See e.g. f(x) = x 4).
• Curve sketching techniques; relations between the graphs of f(x), f'(x) and f''(x).

• Finding absolute extrema

o on an open interval: sign chart for f’(x) if you have only one CN
o on a closed interval: plug in CN and end-points (no sign-chart needed)
• Applied optimization problems, both on closed and open intervals.
• Second derivative test for classifying local maxima and minima
• Mean Value Theorem –wasn’t covered in class, you are not responsible for it
• Antiderivatives
o Basic rules for finding antiderivatives
o Using initial conditions to solve for the constant of integration, C
o Applying the concept of antiderivatives to motion problems