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Course Outline
Course Title: Differential Calculus Credit: 3 units
Course Code: ME 10 Time Allotment: 3 hrs/week
Pre-requisite: Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Basic and Advanced Algebra, Solid Geometry

Course Description:
This course is designed for Mathematics major students. It serves as a foundation course in
Calculus. It involves topics such as functions, limits, continuity, derivatives and differentiation, and their
applications.

Course Objectives:
This course aims to develop a clear understanding of the basic concepts in Calculus and
appreciate its worth as a branch of Mathematics.

At the end of the semester, the students should be able to:

1. Recall the fundamental concepts in functions and use them as mathematical models.
2. Define limit and sketch graphs representing the limit of a function.
3. Apply various limit theorems in calculating limits of functions.
4. Explain and show graphically the relation between limits and derivatives.
5. State and apply theorems on differentiation in solving for derivatives.
6. Determine higher-order derivatives and the derivatives of transcendental functions.
7. Apply concepts on derivatives in solving real-life based problems.
8. Appreciate Calculus and its impact on our daily lives.

Course Content:

Week Learning Task

COURSE ORIENTATION
I. Functions, Limits, and Continuity
1
1. Functions and their Graphs
2. Operations on Functions and Types of Functions
3. Functions as Mathematical Models
2 4. Graphical Introduction to Limits
5. Definition of the Limit of a Function and Limit Theorems
3 6. One-Sided Limits
7. Infinite Limits
8. Continuity of a Function at a Number
4
9. Continuity of a Composite Function and Continuity on an Interval
5 10. Continuity of the Trigonometric Functions and the Squeeze Theorem
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
6 II. The Derivative and Differentiation
1. The Tangent Line and the Derivative

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 2. Differentiability and Continuity
3. Theorems on Differentiation of Algebraic Functions
7 4. Higher- Order Derivatives
5. Derivative as a Rate of Change
8 6. Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions
7. The Chain Rule
8. Implicit Differentiation
9. Related Rates
9
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
10. Derivatives of the Natural Logarithmic Function
11. Logarithmic Differentiation
10
12. Derivatives of Exponential Functions
13. Derivatives of Inverse Trigonometric and Hyperbolic Functions
11 III. Behavior of functions, their graphs, and extreme function values
1. Maximum and Minimum Function Values
2. Applications involving an Absolute Extremum on a Closed Interval
3. Rolles Theorem and the Mean-Value Theorem
12
4. Increasing and Decreasing Functions and the First Derivative Test
5. Concavity, Points of Inflection and the Second Derivative Test
13
6. Sketching Graphs of Functions and their Derivatives
14 7. Limits at Infinity
8. Additional Applications of Absolute Extrema
IV. Approximations and the Differential
1. The Newtons Method
15
2. Linear Approximation
3. Definition of the Differential
4. Approximation Using Differentials
V. Indeterminate Forms and the LHopitals Rule
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1. Definition of .
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2. The LHopitals Rule
3. Other Indeterminate Forms
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17 VI. Calculus of Functions of More than One Variable
1. Functions of More than One Variable
2. Partial Derivatives
3. Differentiability and Total Differential
18 FINAL EXAMINATION

References:

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 Larson, Ron and Edwards, Bruce (2013). Calculus with Applications. Cengage Learning Asia.
Leithold, Louis (1996). The Calculus 7. HarperCollins College Publisher
Peterson, Thurman S. (1968). Calculus with Analytic Geometry. Harper and Row Publishers

Grading System:

Midterm Grading Period Final Grading Period

FACTORS WEIGHT FACTORS WEIGHT
Attendance 5% Attendance 5%
Recitation 10 % Recitation 10%
Quizzes (long quizzes and accumulated Quizzes (long quizzes and accumulated
50 % 50%
points in SW, HW and GW) points in SW, HW and GW)
Preliminary Examination 15%
Final Examination 35%
Midterm Examination 20%
Semestral Grade = (Midterm Grade + Final Grade) / 2

Important Notes:
1. Attendance will be monitored every meeting. You are given a 15 minute grace period. Thus, if
you arrive within the grace period, you will be marked late*. Arriving beyond the grace period is
tantamount to being absent. *3L = 1A
2. No late submission of problem sets.
3. In case of any missed quiz or examination, a make-up test will be given to those whose absence
is due to a valid reason. This should be given at most a week after the scheduled date of quiz or
exam. Expect that the make-up test is harder than the original.
4. No make-up activity will be given for missed SW, HW or GW.
5. Pray hard. It works!

Prepared by: Noted by:

Oliver G. Mariano Maria Lourdes P. Floresta, MS, MAEd

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Faculty, COE-MathEd Dean of Academic Affairs

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