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Math 148 Homework Assignments
Calculus for Biology and Medicine, 3rd ed., by C. Neuhauser

The following assignments will not be collected for a grade. However, you are expected to complete each assignment by the indicated date.

Assignment 1 - complete by Wednesday, Jan. 15

Review of selected Math 147 topics NOTE: The following problems require integration by substitution: 2c, 2d, 2f, 2g, 2h, 4b, 4d. We will cover this topic on the first day of class. All other problems should be completed before the first day of class.
♦ Chapter 4 Review Problems, page 200: #1-24, 26-29, 31, 32 (Work as many of these as necessary to review differentiation.)
♦ Section 6.2, page 305: #39-69 odd, 89-109 odd (Work as many of these as necessary to review integration.)

Assignment 2 - complete by Wednesday, Jan. 22

♦ Section 7.1, page 334: #17-27 odd, 43-55 odd
♦ Section 7.2, page 342: #1-25 odd, 31, 39-49 odd, 50, 53, 54, 55, 57, 59, 63, 67, 69

Assignment 3 - complete by Wednesday, Jan. 29

♦ Section 7.3, page 350: #1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 27, 29, 30, 33-51 odd
♦ Section 7.4, page 362: #1-9 odd, 10-15, 19, 21, 27, 30, 33, 35, 36, 37, 41

Assignment 4 - complete by Wednesday, Feb. 5

♦ Section 7.6, page 381: #1-11 odd, 12, 17-23 odd, 27-30 even and odd (use Taylor's Inequality as given in class), 33
♦ Extra Taylor Polynomial Practice: Check out problems 19 and 20 found here with video solutions found here (courtesy Amy Austin)
♦ Chapter 7 Review, page 387: #1-49 odd, 55-58

Assignment 5 - complete by Wednesday, Feb. 12

♦ Section 8.1, page 403: #1-17 odd, 19a, 21-24 (all), 25-37 odd, 38, 39, 41, 45-53 odd
♦ Section 8.2, page 417: #1-8, 9a, 21, 25-33 odd, 37, 39, 41, 45-51 odd

Assignment 6 - complete by Wednesday, Feb. 19

♦ Section 9.1. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11-17 odd, 18, 21-35 odd

Assignment 7 - complete by Wednesday, Feb. 26

♦ Section 9.2. 1-11 odd, 15, 16, 17-21 odd, 27, 29, 33, 41-47 odd, 48, 51, 52, 53, 55, 57, 58, 63, 65, 71-79 odd

Assignment 8 - complete by Wednesday, Mar. 5

♦ Section 9.3. 1, 3, 5-8, read pg. 469-470 about vector addition and scalar multiplication (starts right after the solution to Example 1), read Example 2 on pg. 470, 17-41 odd, 42, 45, 46, 49, 51, 53-57, 59, 61, 69, 70, 71-79 odd

Assignment 9 - complete by Monday, Mar. 17

♦ Section 10.1. 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19-22, 25
♦ Section 10.2. 7-17 odd, 18, 19, 20, 21-29 odd

Assignment 10 - complete by Wednesday, Mar. 19

♦ Section 9.4. 1-29 odd, 35, 37, 39-42

Assignment 11 - complete by Wednesday, March 26

♦ Section 10.3. 1-27 odd, read Example 4 starting on page 522, 29-49 odd

Assignment 12 - complete by Wednesday, April 2 (subject to change)

♦ Section 10.4. 1-9 odd, 17-45 odd
♦ Section 10.7. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 17, 19-23, 25, 27-29, 33-41 odd (For problems 1, 5, 7, and 11, be able to compute population sizes for at least 4 generations.)

Assignment 13 - complete by Wednesday, April 9(subject to change)

♦ Section 11.1. 1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13-18, 19-65 odd (Note: "sink" = "stable node" and "source" = "unstable node")
♦ Section 11.2. 1-21 odd

Assignment 14 - complete by Wednesday, April 16(subject to change)

♦ Section 11.3. 1-14, Example 2 starting on page 622
♦ Section 11.4. 1-11 odd, 15, 17a, 17b, 19a, 19b