Course Outline

Math 141 – Fall 2008

Class 1 – Tuesday, August 26

Course Information, the Triangle Inequality
Pythagorean Theorem

Class 2 –Thursday, August 28

Similar Triangles (1.2)
Homework: Problem Sets 1, 2

Class 3 – Tuesday, September 2

Inner angles in polygons,
Area and Circumference of Circles and Sectors (1.1)
Area of Rectangles and Triangles
Homework: Problem Set 3

Class 4 – Thursday, September 4

Right Triangle Trigonometry (1.3)
Homework: Problem Sets 4, 5

Class 5 – Tuesday, September 9

Degrees and Radians (2.1)

Homework: Problem Set 6

Class 6 – Thursday, September 11

Rotational Angles, Co-terminal Angles (1.1)

Polar Coordinates
Homework: Problem Sets 7, 8

Class 7 – Tuesday, September 16

Trigonometric Functions: Unit Circle Approach (2.3)

No homework : )

Class 8 – Thursday, September 18

Exam 1

Class 9 – Tuesday, September 23

Trigonometric Identities (4.1, 4.2)

Homework: Problem Set 9

Class 10 – Thursday, September 25

Introduction to vectors (6.5)

Homework: Problem Sets 10, 11

Class 11 – Tuesday, September 30

Sum Formulas and Double-Angle Formulas (4.3, 4.4)

Homework: Problem Set 12

Class 12 – Thursday, October 2

Trigonometric Equations (5.3)

Homework: Problem Set 13

Class 13 – Tuesday, October 7

The Difference Formulas (4.3)

More Trigonometric Equations (5.3)

Homework: Problem Set 14

Class 14 – Thursday, October 9

Practice

Class 15 – Tuesday, October 14

The Half-Angle Formulas (4.4)

Class 16 – Thursday, October 16

Exam 2 (same as the Midterm Exam)

Class 17 – Tuesday, October 21

The graphs of sinx and cosx (3.1)

Class 18 – Thursday, October 23

Review of Slope of a Line

The Golden Mean and sin18^o

Homework: Problem Set 15

Class 19 – Tuesday, October 28

The half-angle formula for tangent (4.4)

Complex Numbers (A.2, 7.3)

Homework: Problem Set 16

Class 20 – Thursday, October 30

Why the square of i is –1

Homework: Problem Set 17

Class 21 – Tuesday, November 4

Practice

Class 22 – Thursday, November 6

            Product-Sum and Sum-Product Identities (4.4)

Class 23 – Tuesday, November 11

Graphing sine and cosine functions

Class 24 – Thursday, November 13

Exam 3

Class 25 – Tuesday, November 18

Graphing the tangent function

Class 26 – Thursday, November 20

Vectors, algebraically defined (6.5)

The Law of Sines (6.1)

The Law of Cosines (6.2)

Homework: Problem Set 18

Class 27 – Tuesday, November 25

Scalar-product of vectors (6.6)

Homework: Problem Set 19

Class 28 – Tuesday, December 2

Graphing more complex trigonometric functions (3.3)

Inverse Trigonometric Functions (5.2)

Class 29 – Thursday, December 4

De Moivre’s Theorem and the nth root theorem (7.4)

Class 30 – Tuesday, December 9

Final Review

Class 31 – Thursday, December 11

Final Exam