Dr. Nestler's Math 8 page - Fall 2009, section 4327, MW 5:00-7:25pm in MC 70

Course information

        Syllabus (6 pages)

Resources

        Office hours:  MW 3:45-4:45pm and T 3:30-4:30 in MC 61, plus Math 7 workshop Th 3:30-4:30pm in Math Lab

        Math Lab

        Essential trigonometry identities and first semester calculus definitions and theorems (2-page PDF)

Documents in PDF form (1 page unless noted):  Print and bring them to class.

        Wednesday, September 16  Carbon dating

        Monday, October 19  Surface area of surfaces of revolution (3 pages)

        Monday, October 19  Moments and centers of mass (2 pages)

        Wednesday, November 4  Graphing a parametrized curve

Optional reading:

        Wednesday, October 21  Partial proof of L'Hôpital's Rule

Interesting articles:

        Reexamining the Catenary by Paul Cella, copyright the Mathematical Association of America

        What's Harmonic about the Harmonic Series? by David Kullman, copyright the Mathematical Association of America

        The Sum of the Alternating Harmonic Series