Resources on the Web

COURSE: MATH 211, Calculus for Business and Social Science (3). An elementary treatment of topics from differential and integral calculus, with applications in social science and business.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: The course will introduce the central ideas of calculus: the instantaneous rate of growth of a function, and the average value of a function over an interval. The course will show how these concepts can be applied to solve problems in a variety of areas, including business, economics, biology, and sociology. The course will include problems on exponential growth and decay.

CALCULUS on the WEB:

• There are long lists of Calculus-related sites at this location:
  • Calculus Resources On-line, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• This site has useful comments on how to study for a math course:
  • Understanding Mathematics: a study guide, from the University of Utah
• Here is another site with on-line graphing:
  • Gnuplot