Sample Exams for Math 132

 

Some formatting has been changed, otherwise these are actual exams from a math 132 class. Warning: these exams should give you an idea if you are ready to take an exam over the topics listed. These exams contain only a small sampling from possible questions on the topics. Even if you are able to work these sample exams, that is no guarantee that you will be able to work the hour exams given by your instructor. There is no short list of problems that will prepare you for an hour exam. You should go over all your homework, problems worked in class, and examples in the book. Although all instructors cover approximately the same material, there could be some variations among sections. For example, your instructor might not have covered numerical integration, in which case you can skip problem 6 on the fourth hour exam.

 

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    Topics Covered
Hour Exam I Solutions Rates of Change and Limits, Rules for finding Limits, Target Values and Formal Definitions of Limits, Extensions of the Limit Concept, Continuity, Tangent Lines, The Derivative, Differentiation Rules, Rates of Change.
Hour Exam II Solutions Derivatives of Trig. Functions, Chain Rule, Implicit Differentiation and Rational Exponents, Related Rates of Change, Extreme Values of a Function, The Mean Value Theorem, First Derivative Test, Graphing with First and Second Derivatives.
Hour Exam III Solutions Asymptotes, Dominant Terms, Limits as x becomes infinitely large, Optimization, Linearization and Differentials, Newton's Method, Indefinite Integrals, Differential Equations, Initial Value Problems.
Hour Exam IV Solutions Integration by Substitution, Estimating Integrals with Finite Sums, Riemann Sums and Definite Integrals, Properties of Definite Integrals, Mean Value Theorem for Definite Integrals, The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Substitution in Definite Integrals, Numerical Integration, Areas between Curves.