The first rule of bootcamp is: You DO talk about bootcamp!
I know that the start of the semester is busy, but now is the time to consolidate what you learnt last semester if you feel that you are struggling. It will take a good number of hours each week for a couple of weeks, but with effort you can do it. It’s really useful to go through these with other people, but it’s also important to spend some time going through exercises on your own. I suggest finding a balance between the two.
I’m going to list some links below, some of which have explanations, some of which have videos and many of which have exercises. Here’s your task if you choose to accept it:
- Put aside Whatsapp, Facebook, news feeds, anything distracting and make sure that you are in a quiet place – if possible take the material offline so you don’t have to have any internet connection when you are going through these.
- Make sure you have pen and paper ready. Actively writing is infinitely more useful than just thinking about whether you know how to solve a problem
- Choose which topic you are going to focus on and set your timer for an hour
- Read through the topic and take notes for yourself
- Go through as many exercises as you can in the time you’ve given yourself
- After the hour is up, go for a stretch, a walk, a breather for 15 minutes
- Come back and go through any of the questions which you got stuck on and go through another hour’s worth
- Stop
- Come back the next day and look at the questions you struggled with the day before
- Repeat
After you have been through as much of the material as is in the links, send an email to me and tell me how it’s going. Let me know:
- Do you now understand the topic?
- Do you need more questions?
- Do you need more explanation?
- What has been the biggest stumbling block?
- What has been the greatest insight so far?
Note that there will be some questions in here which we haven’t covered and so you will have to figure out if there is something that you are not expected to know. If you are not sure, send me a message and I’ll tell you whether you should be able to do it.
Here are some useful links which I’ve found for the topics which you have asked about:
Related rates:
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/RelatedRates.aspx
http://fireflylectures.com/Related-Rates-Intro-and-Theory/
http://fireflylectures.com/Related-Rates-Example-Falling-Ladder/
http://fireflylectures.com/Related-Rates-Example-Water-In-Trough/
http://fireflylectures.com/Related-Rates-Example-Fill-Balloon-With-Air/
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/differential-calculus/derivative_applications/rates_of_change/v/rates-of-change-between-radius-and-area-of-circle
Optimization:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/calculus1 – check out the section on optimization.
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/Optimization.aspx
Graph sketching:
fireflylectures.com/Curve-Sketching-Introduction
http://fireflylectures.com/Curve-Sketching-Polynomial-Example/
http://calculus.nipissingu.ca/tutorials/curves.html
https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~kouba/CalcOneDIRECTORY/graphingdirectory/Graphing.html
Integration by substitution
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/SubstitutionRuleIndefinite.aspx
http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/4/substitutions.1/
http://www.teaching.martahidegkuti.com/shared/lnotes/6_calculus/integral/substitution/substitutionb.pdf
http://17calculus.com/integrals/substitution/
http://www2.bc.cc.ca.us/resperic/math6a/lectures/ch5/4/HW5.4/HW5.4sols.htm
Integration by parts
http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/4/int_by_parts.1/
http://www.teaching.martahidegkuti.com/shared/lnotes/6_calculus/integral/parts/parts.pdf
http://math.arizona.edu/~calc/Text/Section7.2.pdfhttp://www.math.ucsb.edu/~vtkala/2014/Math3B/Math3B-IntegrationByParts-Solutions.pdf
http://17calculus.com/integrals/integration-by-parts/
Limits
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/LimitsIntro.aspx
https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~kouba/ProblemsList.html
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~ronmiech/Actuarial_Review/Limits/Master/Master.html
https://www3.nd.edu/~apilking/Math10560/Calc1Lectures/Lecture%204%20Limit%20Laws.pdf
Inverse functions
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/InverseFunctions.aspx
Applications of derivatives
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/DerivAppsIntro.aspx
Newton’s method
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/NewtonsMethod.aspx
http://www.millersville.edu/~bikenaga/calculus/newton/newton.html
If there are any other topics which I’ve not listed here which you would like to have more questions on, let me know and I’ll find some suitable ones for you.
Trig integrals
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Problems/CalcII/IntegralsWithTrig.aspx
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ProblemsNS/CalcII/IntegralsWithTrig.aspx
http://www.zweigmedia.com/RealWorld/trig/trig4.html
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01-single-variable-calculus-fall-2006/video-lectures/lecture-27-trig-integrals/
https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~kouba/CalcTwoDIRECTORY/trigintdirectory/TrigInt.html
Integration by trig substitution
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Problems/CalcII/TrigSubstitutions.aspx
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ProblemsNS/CalcII/TrigSubstitutions.aspx
http://www.emathhelp.net/notes/calculus-2/integration-techniques/trigonometric-substitutions/
Integration by partial fractions
https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~kouba/CalcTwoDIRECTORY/partialfracdirectory/PartialFrac.html
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Problems/CalcII/PartialFractions.aspx
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ProblemsNS/CalcII/PartialFractions.aspx
http://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/public/72b18975-8251-444e-8af8-224b7df11fb7/programs/disciplines/math/coursesupplements/supplementary_notes_-_partial_fractions.pdf
http://www.ck12.org/book/CK-12-Calculus/section/7.3/
Improper integrals
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Problems/CalcII/ImproperIntegrals.aspx
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ProblemsNS/CalcII/ImproperIntegrals.aspx
http://www.sosmath.com/calculus/improper/convdiv/convdiv.html
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01-single-variable-calculus-fall-2006/video-lectures/lecture-36-improper-integrals/
The comparison theorem
http://www.sosmath.com/calculus/improper/testconv/testconv.html
http://modular.math.washington.edu/20b/notes/html/node40.html
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Problems/CalcII/ImproperIntegralsCompTest.aspx
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Calculus/Improper_Integrals
Proof by Induction
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-042j-mathematics-for-computer-science-fall-2010/video-lectures/lecture-2-induction/
http://www.analyzemath.com/math_induction/mathematical_induction.html
http://www.millersville.edu/~bikenaga/math-proof/induction/induction.html
http://people.math.sc.edu/sumner/numbertheory/induction/Induction.html
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~joel.zinn/433sum11/additional-material/induction-practice.pdf
Proof by Contradiction – these are somewhat harder to find good examples of
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/Contradict.pdf
http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~larryc/proofs/proofs.contradict.html
The Binomial Theorem
http://www.desertacademy.org/Math/Alei/SLBinomialPractice.pdf
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~booth/311-04/notes/combinatorics.html
http://www.mathwarehouse.com/algebra/polynomial/binomial-theorem.php
I’ve been told that this is a rather useful video to help understand the binomial theorem if you’ve struggled with the class material. With thanks to Sasha T!
Complex Numbers
https://brilliant.org/math/algebra/complex-numbers/
http://www.examsolutions.net/maths-revision/further-maths/complex-numbers/exam-questions/questions.php
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ProblemsNS/Alg/ComplexNumbers.aspx
https://www.examsolutions.net/tutorials/exam-questions-complex-numbers/
http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/UG/JM/MATH1901/Quizzes/quiz2.html
http://home.scarlet.be/math/Pcomplex.htm
Differential equations
Separable:
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/DE/Separable.aspx
https://math.dartmouth.edu/~klbooksite/3.03/303.html
First order linear:
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/DE/Linear.aspx
http://mathinsight.org/ordinary_differential_equation_linear_integrating_factor_examples
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/differential-equations/first-order-differential-equations
Second order linear homogeneous with constant coefficients:
http://www.math.psu.edu/tseng/class/Math251/Notes-2nd%20order%20ODE%20pt1.pdf
http://www.intmath.com/differential-equations/7-2nd-order-de-homogeneous.php
Vectors and Matrices
https://math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/finite/fm3/scan/4.pdf
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/DE/LA_Matrix.aspx
https://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/167576-Matrices-And-determinants
https://mathsmartinthomas.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/fp3-matrices-vectors-examwizard.pdf
http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/alevel/fpure_ch9.pdf
http://www.explainingmaths.com/vectors-matrices-and-transformations.html
More video links from Vula announcements
http://www.centerofmath.org/videos/index.html#subject1
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ProblemsNS/CalcII/TaylorSeries.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Partitions and Ramanujan’s amazing role in understanding them.
Here’s a Khan Academy video on Related Rates.
the limit of x->0 of sin(x)/x is in isiXhosa
Here’s a Khan academy video about the Mean Value theorem. I couldn’t find the same video in Xhosa, but I did find a proof by induction video in Xhosa.
https://www.youtube.com/user/blackpenredpen/videos
Graham’s Number – an unimaginably large number which is talked about in the Numberphile video here.
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