Topic outline

  • The materials will be added here as the course proceeds. The videos do not cover all the course material; they only contain the main definitions and some examples.


    Short videos (with varying length):

    1. Sequences (25:01)
    2. Series (35:43; please skip blackboard cleaning from 10:00 to 13:45 :)
    3. Continuity (33:09)
    4. Derivative (30:11)
    5. Taylor polynomials and series Part 1: Taylor (35:50), Part 2: Power series (23:24)
    6. Elementary functions Part 1: Inverse (18:49); Part 2: Inverse trig. (18:58); Part 3: exp and ln (21:34)
    7. The concept of area in the plane (14:22)
    8. Integral Part 1: Definition (32:06); Part 2: Applications (13:12); Part 3: Improper integrals (10:58); Part 4: Methods of integration (41:51)
    9. ODE of the 1st order  Part 1: Separable (24:55); Part 2: Linear (14:24)
    10. ODE of the 2nd order Part 1: General theory (14:46); Part 2: Homogeneous case (18:46); Part 3: Non-homogeneous case (21:25)
    • Some parts of the material were or will be edited from these Beamer slides for the corresponding Finnish version of the course. These may be helpful for some participants.

    • Chapter 1:
      • Basics of sequences
      • Some important sequences
      • Convergence, divergence and limits
    • Chapter 2:
      • Convergence
      • Basic results
      • Absolute convergence
      • Convergence tests
    • Chapter 3:

      • Limit of a function
      • Limits and continuity
      • Properties of continuous functions
    • Chapter 4:

      • Derivative
      • Properties of derivative
      • Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions
      • The Chain Rule
      • Extremal Value Problems
    • Chapter 5:

      • Taylor polynomial
      • Taylor polynomial and extereme values
      • Newton's method
      • Taylor series
      • Power series
    • Chapter 6:

      • Functions
      • Inverse functions
      • Transcendental functions
        • Trigonometric functions
        • Arcus functions
        • Exponential function
        • Logarithms
        • Hyperbolic functions
    • Chapter 7:

      • Area in the plane
        • Starting point
        • General case
    • Chapter 8:

      • From sum to integral
        • Integration of continuous functions
        • Piecewise-defined functions
      • Important properties
      • Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
      • Geometric applications
        • Area of a plane region
        • Arc length
        • Surface of revolution
        • Solid of revolution
      • Integrals of elementary functions
      • Improper integral
      • Comparison test
      • Integration techniques
        • Logarithmic integration
        • Partial fraction decomposition
        • Integration by Parts
        • Integration by Substitution
    • Chapter 9:

      • Introduction
        • Solutions of a differential equation
        • Initial condition
        • Direction field
      • 1st Order Ordinary Differential Equations
        • Linear 1st order ODE
        • Solving a 1st order linear ODE
        • Separable equation
        • The trivial solutions of a separable ODE
        • \(\star\) Equations expressible as separable>
        • \(\star\) Euler's method
      • 2nd and higher order ODEs
        • Solving a homogeneous ODE
        • Equations with constant coefficients
        • Euler's differential equation
        • Nonhomogeneous linear differential equations

        Note. Extracurricular chapters are marked with \(\star\) !