These activities reinforce the new concepts that are introduced in class and give you practice with computations (both by hand and using Mathematica.). Some of the activities will use Mathematica notebooks (interactive texts) to work out the examples. Clicking on an activity number will open the PDF file for the section in which the activity can be found. You can use the Find feature of Adobe Acrobat to go to the activity within the PDF file.

Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 6

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2.1 Functions Represented as Tables and Formulas 

 2.1.1

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 2.1.3

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2.2 Graphs of Functions 

 2.2.1

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 2.2.2

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 2.2.3

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 2.2.4

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 3.1 Linear Functions

 3.1.1

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 3.1.2

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 3.1.3

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 3.2 Quadratic Functions

 3.2.1

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 3.2.2

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 3.2.3

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3.3 Cubic Functions 

 3.3.1

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 3.3.2

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 3.3.3

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 3.4 Exponential Functions

 3.4.1

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 3.4.2

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 3.4.3

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3.5 Logistic Functions 

 3.5.1

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 3.5.2

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 3.6 Sine and Cosine Functions

 3.6.1

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 3.6.2

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 4.1 The Method of Least Squares Fit

 4.1.1

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 4.2 Fitting Functions Using Mathematica

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 4.2.2

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 4.2.3

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 6.1 A Simple Model for the Amount of a Drug Remaining in the Blood

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 6.1.2

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 6.2 How to Manage Credit

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 6.3 General Solution for First-Order Linear DDS (One Variable)

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 6.5 Classification of Discrete Dynamical Systems (One Variable)

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 6.6 Population Models

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