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ECE Calculus I
Winter Break Review Packet

The final exam will cover everything from this semester, including the following
topics:
Understanding of local extreme at an x-value.
Understanding the nature of a definite integral.
Understanding the relationship between a function and its inverse.
Understanding the interplay between exponentials and logarithms.
Differentiating using the differentiation rules for functions involving
algebraic, trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic
functions.
Understanding the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, both parts and using
them.
Limits of functions using L'Hopital's Rule.
Understanding the interplay between distance, velocity and acceleration of an
object.
Understanding continuity.
Using the limit definition to find the derivative of a function.
Finding the rate of change of a quantity when it and other quantities are
related by some equation.
Determining analytically graphical aspects of the graph of a function.
Understanding finite Riemann sums using left, right or midpoints of the
subintervals to approximate a definite integral.
Using u-substitution for indefinite and definite integration.

Intervals

Asymptotes

Increasing and decreasing

Velocity/acceleration

Limits (including to )

Definition of the derivative

Left- and right-hand limits

Interpreting the graph of the

The Mean Value Theorem

derivative

Concavity

Continuity

Linearization

Implicit differentiation

Related Rates

Minima/Maxima

Complete the following practice problems to help prepare you for the exam.
Evaluate the following limits.
1)

2)

3)

4)

5)

6)

For the piecewise function, f, to the

left, evaluate the following limits.
7)

8)

9)

10)

11)

12)

Given the following functions, find f(x) for each.

13) f(x) =

14) f(x) = x2 cos 3x

15) f(x) = ln(x3 2)

16) f(x) = e2x+1

17) f(x) = etan 3x

18) f(x) = sin2(ln (5x))

Find

19) 4x3 3y2 = 5x

20) 3y + 2x2y = 7y3

21) sin x = 2cos y

22) A fire spreads in the shape of a circle. The radius of the circle increases at
the rate of 4 ft/min. Find the rate at which the fire area is increasing when the
radius is 96 feet.

23) Water pours into a conical tank of height 10 ft and diameter 4 ft at a rate of
6 ft3/min. How fast is the water level rising when it is 2 ft deep?

24) The position of a particle at time t along the x-axis is given by the equation
x(t) = t3 9t2 + 15t + 2.
a) What is the position of the particle at t = 1?

b) Find the velocity of the particle at time t = 4. In which direction is the

particle moving at t = 4?

c) At which time(s), t, is the particle at rest?

d) What is the acceleration of the particle at t = 2? Is the particle

speeding up or slowing down at t = 2?

25) Find the value of x that satisfies the Mean Value Theorem for
f(x) = x2 4x + 5 on [-3, 2].

26) For a given function, g, g(1) = 6 and g(2) = 2. Find an approximation for g(1.5).

27) For f(x) =

a) Find the domain of f.

b) Find the critical points, intervals of increasing and decreasing and minima
and maxima for f.

c) Find points of inflection and intervals of concavity for f.

d) Find horizontal and vertical asymptotes and left- and right-hand limits of
vertical asymptotes.

e) Use the information from the previous page, NOT A CALCULATOR, to

sketch the graph of f. Be to label any extreme values and equations of asymptotes.

28) Find the equation of the line tangent the function at the given value of x.
a) f(x) = x5 at x = 1

b) f(x) =

at x = 3

29) Find the linear approximation for cos(.01).