Math 232: Calculus for Economics

R. Clark Robinson

Winter 2006

Course assignments

• Homework and reading assignments
• Extra homework problems
• Handouts to supplement the textbook
• Calculation of determinants
• Vectors and planes as arising in economics
• Topics from derivatives of vector functions
• Functions 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
• Economic applications of Lagrange multipliers

Quizes

• Answers to quiz 1
• Answers to quiz 2
• Answers to quiz 3

Information about tests

• 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

Tests from previous years

• Test 1
• Test 1 from 2005
• Test 1 from 2004:   Answers
• Test 2
• Test 2 from 2005:   Answers
• Test 2 from 2004:   Answers
• Final
• Final from 2005:   Answeres
• Final from 2004:   Answers

Tests from years 1999-2003 include questions about integration, which are on longer covered.

• 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)
• Answeres
• Final from fall 2000 (We did not cover the material for questions 1, 2, 3, & 4)
• Answers: page 3 , page 4 , page 5 , page 6 , page 7
• 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