Math 214-4: Calculus for Economics

R. Clark Robinson

Winter 2004

Course assignments

• Homework and reading assignments
• Extra homework problems
• Comments on various topics
  • Calculation of determinants (preliminary version)
  • Topics from derivatives of vector functions
  • Function in economics
  • Marginal product of labor and capital
  • Economic Applications of Implicit differentiation
  • Economic Applications of Maximization
  • Second derivative test for a function with more variables
  • Least squares: problem 45 in Section 11.7
  • Second derivative test for constrained extrema
  • Economic interpretation of a Lagrange multiplier

Information about tests

• Quizzes
• Quiz 1, Quiz 2, Quiz 3, Quiz 4, Quiz 5, Quiz 6
• Test 1
• Info about test 1
• Questions on test 1
• Answers to test 1
• Test 2
• Info about test 2
• Questions on test 2
• Answers to test 2
• Final
• Info about final
• Questions on final
• Answers to final

Sample tests from previous years

• Previous years tests include questions about integration and differentiation, which we are not covering this year.
• Test 2
• Test 2 from 2003
• Test 2 from fall 2000
  • Answers: page 1 , page 2 , page 3 , page 4
• Test 2 from fall 1999
• Final
• Final from 2003 (We did not cover the material for questions 1, 2, & 3)
• Final from fall 2000 (We did not cover the material for questions 1, 2, 3, & 4)
• Final from winter 2000 (We did not cover the material for questions 1, 2, 3, & 4)
• Answers: page 1 , page 2 , page 3
• Final from fall 1999 (We did not cover the material for questions 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5)
• Final for Math 214-3 from spring 2003 (We did not cover the material for Part I question 5, Part II questions 2c, 3, 6, 14)

R. Clark Robinson

Office: Lunt 209

E-mail address: clark (followed by math.northwestern.edu)

Phone: 491-3738

Classes

Math 214-4: MWF 11 AM

Office Hours (Winter 2004)

MW 2-3 PM & by appointment