Math Analysis Notes and Videos
Notes 01
Radians, arc length, basic stuff about trigonometry in the plane, coterminal angles, degrees, minutes, seconds.
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 02
Right triangle trigonometry, review of special right triangles, introduction of reciprocal functions, using a calculator, co-functions.
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 03
Unit Circle! Even/odd trig functions. Here’s a blank copy of the Unit Circle quiz. Print it and practice a LOT!
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 04
Reference angles, circular definitions of trigonometric functions, “point” problems, trig and slope of a line
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 05
Periodic functions, graphing all of the trig functions (with all of the transformations), equations from graphs, equations from tables of data. Here’s a link to a GeoGebra sketch that illustrates how the Unit Circle relates to the graphs of sine and cosine.
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
- Here’s a link to some useful Desmos Activities and GeoGebra sketches.
Notes 06
Inverse trig functions, domains/ranges, compositions. Here’s a link to a GeoGebra sketch that lets you figure out how the Unit Circle generates the graphs of sine and cosine. Making sine 1-to-1 and making cosine 1-to-1.
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 07
Trigonometric identities, verifying identities; using co-functions, tables, and identities. You’ll also need these eventually, so print them when you print the notes. (Sorry, have to be in my class to get them!)
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- There are currently no Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 08
Solving trigonometric equations.
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 09
The 14 Formulas! (sum/difference/double angle/half angle/Euler’s Formula).
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 10
Law of Sines/Law of Cosines, Heron’s Formula, general area of a triangle. Here’s a link (must be logged in to ) to a google spreadsheet that will solve triangles so you can check answers. Here’s a link to the GeoGebra sketch that I use to motivate the acute-angled ambiguous case.
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 11
All kinds of stuff about two-dimensional vectors. Here’s a link to a GeoGebra page that finds the parallel and orthogonal vectors that sum to a given vector. (If you’ve done the notes, you know the problem!)
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 12
Complex numbers, trig/polar form, multiplying, dividing, nth powers, nth roots. Here’s a link Not Yet to a GeoGebra file for visualizing the nth roots of a complex number. Here’s a link to a little p5.js sketch for area of regular polygon.
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
The Inexcusable Problem Set!
This is a collection of some big ideas type questions that you should definitely be able to solve by the end of Notes 12, which we’ve now reached. Note that it’s inexcusable not to be able to solve them…that doesn’t mean you will be able to–just that there’s no excuse for not being able to, really.
Notes 13
Random stuff about functions, rational functions, that kind of stuff…some basic limits at infinity. Here’s a little write up about how to graph two different rational functions.
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Not Yet Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 14
Conic sections…lots and lots of conic sections…
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
- Not Yet Here’s a link to some GeoGebra sketches that are helpful for these notes.
Notes 15
Parametric equations and doing stuff with them. Here’s a link to a detailed discussion of a problem (relevant to you by page 189).
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- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
- Here’s a link to some GeoGebra sketches that are helpful for these notes.
Notes 16
Polar coordinates. Converting polar to rectangular; graphing in polar coordinates; common polar curves.
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 17
Three-dimensional things, lines, simple planes (we do NOT cover cross product in the notes), volumes of revolution.
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
- Here’s a link to some GeoGebra sketches that are helpful for these notes.
Notes 18
More on volumes of revolution, area problems, start tying it all into limits. Here’s a link to a supplement on using summations for arc length. Here’s a link to some GeoGebra sketches about these sorts of things.
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
- Not Yet Here’s a link to some GeoGebra sketches that are helpful for these notes.
Notes 19
Limits visually, graphically, numerically.
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 20
Limits and almost all the algebra you’ll need to do them. We don’t cover pages 8, 9, and 10 in class. Try them on your own and then watch the videos in the playlist if you don’t know what you’re doing!
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 21
IVT; limit definition of a derivative; power, product, and quotient rules; some notation stuff; higher derivatives. Consider listening to Episode 01 of this podcast for some info on Newton, Leibniz, and the beginnings of calculus.
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
Notes 22
Extreme Values; Candidates Test; First & Second Derivative Tests; Curve Sketching; some basic optimization problems.
- Here’s a link to the notes.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of me working through the notes. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube playlist of additional videos about these notes.
- Here’s a link to the Problem Sets for these notes.
AP Calculus Summer Assignment
This is not actually a summer assignment that you’re required to do if you’re in my class, but I made it after a bunch of people asked!
- Here’s a link to the pdf of the summer assignment.
- Here’s a link to a YouTube video of me working through the problems. Complete solutions and explanations!
- Here’s a link to a YouTube video of me doing an overview of the concepts you need to master to succeed in AP Calculus.