TRIGONOMETRY SYLLABUS
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| Class#
20092 MTuWTh 8:00 - 10:15 AM, Room PS 14 UNITS: 3.0 INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Graham Chalmers OFFICE: SB28 HOURS: MTuWTh 12:00 - 12:45 PM. TELEPHONE: 562-860-2451 ext 2696 E-mail: gchalmers@cerritos.edu TEXT: McKeague, Trigonometry, 6th edition, Brooks/Cole |
| PREREQUISITE: Intermediate Algebra with a 'C' or better, and Geometry with a 'C' or better. Please note that in order to enroll, proof that both prerequisites are satisfied must be submitted to Cerritos College in time for this information to be recorded. Your enrollment will be blocked if the prerequisites are not on the computer. |
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GRADE: See general course information. Back to Chalmers home page. |
| You may be required to access course information, such as homework assignments, etc., on-line. Practice test questions found in a syllabus are in PDF format. To view them download the Adobe Acrobat® Reader at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html |
| CALCULATOR: A TI-84Plus or other suitable graphing calculator is required. |
| Tuesday,
June 23, 2009*, is the last day to withdraw from the class and
receive a W. I cannot assign a W grade after the deadline.*. If you cease to attend, withdraw through Admissions and Records, to avoid getting an F. |
| HELP:
See me in my office, SB28. It is a good idea to form study groups outside
of class. Enroll in AED 90.91 – Supervised Mathematics Tutoring, a class attended as needed. Go to the Academic Support Center, in the lower level of the east side of the Learning Resource Center (library building). Ask questions during the lecture. Before each lecture you can ask questions about textbook problems and examples. |
| HOMEWORK (HW) & GROUPWORK (GW): Plan to spend eight or more hours per week outside of class reading, doing assignments and attending tutorial classes. Unless otherwise stated, the default selection for practice HW is every tenth problem starting with #1, from the exercises at the end of each section in a chapter. These should be completed by the due dates below, and will have to be turned in. Work must be shown to get credit. For HW and GW ten percent of the value of the work will be deducted for each class late. No late work will be accepted more than 4 classes late or after JUNE 29, 2009. Students must read the textbook, including examples, and work additional problems as needed. |
| The schedule below is only approximate. DATES, TOPICS AND TESTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. (*Dates determined by admissions office - you must confirm these with that office.) Topics & dates below are very rough. They will gradually be revised. |
| Mon. MAY 25 Memorial Day Holiday. |
| Tue. MAY 26 Introductory topics and lecture on 1.1, 1.2, 2.1 Angles, angle measure, similar triangles, trigonometric ratios in triangles, right triangle trigonometry, applications. Rectangular coordinate system. Coordinate system. Distance. Circles. Functions. Graphing calculator use. |
| Wed. MAY 27 Lecture on 1.3, 1.4, 2.2, 2.3. Right triangle trigonometry. Trigonometric functions. Trig functions of general angles. Unit circle. Properties of trig functions. Properties of trig functions. Fundamental identities. Transformations of functions. |
| Thu. MAY 28 Lecture on 2.4, 2.5, 3.1. Applications. Finding quadrant of terminal side of an angle. Reference angles. Graphs of sine and cosine functions. Transformations of functions. Inverse functions. Inverse sine function. |
| Mon. JUN. 1 Lecture on 3.2, 3.3, 3.4. Radians. Arc length. Sector area. QUIZ ONE on 1.1 - 3.1. |
| Tue. JUN. 2 Lecture on 3.5, 4.1, 4.2 Velocities. Graphing. Sinusoidal graphs. |
| Wed. JUN. 3 Lecture on 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6. Graphing. Review for Test One. Test One Sample Problems. |
| Thu. JUNE 4 TEST ONE on Chapters 1, 2, 3, & 4. |
| Mon. JUNE 8 Lecture on 4.7, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5. Trigonometric identities. Sum/Difference formulas. Double and Half angle formulas. Product/Sum formulas. |
| Tue. JUNE 9 Lecture on 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 Area of a triangle. Inverse sine, inverse cosine, inverse tangent & inverse secant functions. Trigonometric identities. Solving trigonometric equations. Solving trigonometric equations. |
| Wed. JUNE 10 QUIZ TWO on 4.2 - 5.2 |
| Thu. JUNE 11 Lecture on 7.1, 7.2. Law of Sines. Law of Cosines. Review for Test Two. Some sample Test Two problems. Test Two Spring 2003 Solutions. Correction to 1.(b): quadrant is IV. |
| Mon. JUNE 15 TEST TWO on Chapters 4, 5 & 6. |
| Tue. JUNE 16 Lecture on 7.3, 7.4, 7.5. Law of Sines. Law of Cosines. Vectors. Polar equations and graphs. |
| Wed. JUNE 17 Lecture on 7.6, 8.1, 8.2. Vectors. Dot product. Angle between vectors. Complex numbers. Polar graphs & Complex numbers. |
| Thu. JUNE 18 Lecture on 8.3, 8.4, 8.5. Complex plane. Trig form of a complex number. DeMoivre's Theorem. The nth roots of a complex number. Polar coordinates. |
| Mon. JUNE 22 MAKEUP TEST, |
| Tue. JUNE 23 Lecture on 8.6. Polar graphing. DeMoivre's Theorem. The nth roots of a complex number. QUIZ THREE on 7.1 - 8.5. |
| Wed. JUNE 24 Review for Test Three. Test Three Sample Problems. Solutions to Test Three Sample Problems. |
| Thu. JUNE 25 TEST THREE on Chapters 7 & 8. |
| Mon. JUNE 29 Review of all topics in the course. Last day to turn in any work. Some sample final exam problems. |
| Tue. JUNE 30 Prefinal exam. Need 882E scantron. Covers all sections/topics. |
| Wed. JULY 1 Review of all topics in the course. |
| Thu. JULY 2 FINAL EXAM in the classroom. Covers all sections/topics. |