MA 241 Course Calendar
The schedule below lists the planned activities for this course. See the course syllabus for additional course information. Typos are possible. You are responsible for tracking university closures, final exam schedules, etc. through the NC State University Academic Calendar.
Due dates for assignments should be confirmed through Moodle. Always check the assignments themselves for specific dates. These due dates are tentative; dates may change on Moodle without changing on this schedule.
Week 1 (Monday, January 12 - Friday, January 16)
- Monday: Review Part 1: Trigonometry
- Tuesday: Review Part 2: Other Precalc Topics
- Wednesday: Review Part 3: Derivatives
- Thursday: Review Part 4: u-sub and integration by parts
- Friday: U1 L01: Trig Integrals 1
Assignments
- Please introduce yourself on our class forum! Ideally by the end of our first week. (Monday, January 12)
Week 2 (Monday, January 19 - Friday, January 23)
- Monday: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Tuesday: U1 L02: Trig Integrals 2
- Wednesday:
- Thursday: U1 L03: Trig Substitution 1
- Friday: U1 L04: Trig Substitution 2
Assignments
- Homework 0.1 (Wednesday, January 21)
- Intro to WebAssign (Friday, January 23)
- Entering Symbolic Answers (Friday, January 23)
Week 3 (Monday, January 26 - Friday, January 30)
- Monday: U1 L05: Partial Fractions 1
- Tuesday: U1 L06: Partial Fractions 2
- Wednesday:
- Thursday: U1 L07: Improper Integrals 1
- Friday: U1 L08: Improper Integrals 2
Assignments
- Homework 2.1 (Wednesday, January 28)
- Homework 2.2 (Wednesday, January 28)
Week 4 (Monday, February 2 - Friday, February 6)
- Monday: U1 L09: Improper Integrals 3
- Tuesday: Review for Test 1
- Wednesday–Friday: MA 241 Test 1 (recommended testing window)
Assignments
- Homework 2.3 (Wednesday, February 4)
- 📝 Test 1 Opens (Wednesday, February 4)
Week 5 (Monday, February 9 - Friday, February 13)
- Monday: MA 241 Test 1 (recommended testing window)
- Tuesday: U2 L01: Arc Length
- Wednesday: U2 L02: Average Value
- Thursday: • U2 L03: Force and Work
• U2 L04: Springs
- Friday: U2 L05: Pumping Fluid
Assignments
- Homework 2.6 (Wednesday, February 11)
Week 6 (Monday, February 16 - Friday, February 20)
- Monday: U2 L06: Hydrostatic Pressure
- Tuesday: Wellness Day 🍃. Please see Wolfpack Wellness
- Wednesday:
- Thursday: U2 L07: Center of Mass
- Friday: U3 L01: Introduction to Sequences
Assignments
- Homework 1.1 (Friday, February 20)
- Homework 1.2 (Friday, February 20)
Week 7 (Monday, February 23 - Friday, February 27)
- Monday: • U3 L02: Convergent Sequences
• U3 L03: Theorems about Limits of Sequences
- Tuesday: • U3 L04: Introduction to Infinite Series
• U3 L05: Test for Divergence
- Wednesday:
- Thursday: U3 L06: Geometric Series
- Friday: U3 L07: Integral Test and p-series
Assignments
- Homework 1.3 (Wednesday, February 25)
- Homework 4.1 (Wednesday, February 25)
- 📝 Test 1 Closes (last call—no makeups given afterwards) (Friday, February 27)
Week 8 (Monday, March 2 - Friday, March 6)
- Monday: U3 L08: Other Comparison Test (OCT)
- Tuesday: U3 L09: Limit Comparison Test (LCT)
- Wednesday:
- Thursday: U3 L10: Alternating Series Test (AST)
- Friday: U3 L11: Absolute Convergence and the Ratio Test
Assignments
- Homework 4.2 (Wednesday, March 4)
Week 9 (Monday, March 9 - Friday, March 13)
- Monday–Friday: MA 241 Test 2 (recommended testing window)
Assignments
- 📝 Test 2 Opens (Monday, March 9)
- Homework 4.3 (Friday, March 13)
- Homework 4.4 (Friday, March 13)
- Homework 4.5 (Friday, March 13)
Week 10 (Monday, March 16 - Friday, March 20)
- Monday–Friday: Spring Break 🌸
Week 11 (Monday, March 23 - Friday, March 27)
- Monday: • U3 L12: Introduction to Power Series
• U3 L13: Interval of Convergence
- Tuesday: U3 L14: Finding the Radius of Convergence
- Wednesday:
- Thursday: • U3 L15: Functions as Power Series
• U3 L16: Differentiating Power Series
- Friday: • U3 L17: Integrating Power Series
• U3 L18: Representation for arctan(x)
Week 12 (Monday, March 30 - Friday, April 3)
- Monday: U3 L19: Taylor Series Coefficients
- Tuesday: U3 L20: Famous Examples of Taylor Series
- Wednesday:
- Thursday: U4 L01: Introduction to ODEs
- Friday: • U4 L02: Exponential Growth
• U4 L03: Slope Fields
Assignments
- Homework 4.6 (Wednesday, April 1)
- Homework 4.7 (Wednesday, April 1)
Week 13 (Monday, April 6 - Friday, April 10)
- Monday: U4 L04: Euler's Method
- Tuesday: • U4 L05: Separable Differential Equations
• U4 L06: Orthogonal Trajectories
- Wednesday:
- Thursday: U4 L07: Newton's Law of Cooling
- Friday: U4 L08: Tank Mixing
Assignments
- Homework 4.8 (Wednesday, April 8)
- Homework 3.1 (Wednesday, April 8)
- 📝 Test 2 Closes (last call—no makeups given afterwards) (Wednesday, April 8)
Week 14 (Monday, April 13 - Friday, April 17)
- Monday: • U4 L09: Logistic Model for Growth
• Review for Test 3
- Tuesday–Thursday: MA 241 Test 3 (recommended testing window)
- Friday: U4 L11: Introduction to Second-Order ODEs
Assignments
- 📝 Test 3 Opens (Tuesday, April 14)
- Homework 3.2 (Wednesday, April 15)
- Homework 3.3 (Wednesday, April 15)
Week 15 (Monday, April 20 - Friday, April 24)
- Monday: • U4 L12: Real, Distinct Roots
• U4 L13: Real, Repeated Roots
- Tuesday: • U4 L14: Imaginary and Complex Roots
• U4 L15: Euler's Formula
- Wednesday:
- Thursday: • U4 L16: Imaginary Roots
• U4 L17: Complex Roots
- Friday: U4 L18: Method of Undetermined Coefficients (Day 1)
Assignments
- Homework 3.4 (Friday, April 24)
Week 16 (Monday, April 27 - Friday, May 1)
Assignments
- 📝 Test 3 Closes (last call—no makeups given afterwards) (Monday, April 27)
- Homework 3.5 (Wednesday, April 29)
- 📝 Final Exam opens (Wednesday, April 29)
Week 17 (Monday, May 4 - Wednesday, May 6)
Assignments
- Homework 2.5 (Wednesday, May 6)
- Homework 4.9 (extra credit) (Wednesday, May 6)
- Homework 3.6 (extra credit) (Wednesday, May 6)
- 📝 Final Exam closes (Wednesday, May 6)