AP Calculus BC Syllabus
This course is only available as a one-on-one class. If your child has friends who are interested in learning together, they’re welcome to form their own small group. We don’t match students with others they don’t already know.
Syllabus
1 Limits and Their Properties
1.1 A Preview of Calculus
1.2 Finding Limits Graphically and Numerically
1.3 Evaluating Limits Analytically
1.4 Continuity and One-Sided Limits
1.5 Infinite Limits
2 Differentiation
2.1 The Derivative and the Tangent Line Problem
2.2 Basic Differentiation Rules and Rates of Change
2.3 Product and Quotient Rules and Higher-Order Derivatives
2.4 The Chain Rule
2.5 Implicit Differentiation
2.6 Related Rates
3 Applications of Differentiation
3.1 Extrema on an Interval
3.2 Rolle's Theorem and the Mean Value Theorem
3.3 Increasing and Decreasing Functions and the First Derivative Test
3.4 Concavity and the Second Derivative Test
3.5 Limits at Infinity
3.6 A Summary of Curve Sketching
3.7 Optimization Problems
3.8 Newton's Method
3.9 Differentials
4 Integration
4.1 Antiderivatives and Indefinite Integration
4.2 Area
4.3 Riemann Sums and Definite Integrals
4.4 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
4.5 Integration by Substitution
4.6 Numerical Integration
5 Logarithmic, Exponential, and Other Transcendental Functions
5.1 The Natural Logarithmic Function: Differentiation
5.2 The Natural Logarithmic Function: Integration
5.3 Inverse Functions
5.4 Exponential Functions: Differentiation and Integration
5.5 Bases Other Than e and Applications
5.6 Inverse Trigonometric Functions: Differentiation
5.7 Inverse Trigonometric Functions: Integration
5.8 Hyperbolic Functions
6 Differential Equations
6.1 Slope Fields and Euler's Method
6.2 Differential Equations: Growth and Decay
6.3 Separation of Variables and the Logistic Equation
7 Applications of Integration
7.1 Area of a Region Between Two Curves
7.2 Volume: The Disk Method
7.3 Volume: The Shell Method
7.4 Arc Length and Surfaces of Revolution
7.5 Work
8 Integration Techniques, L'Hopital's Rule, and Improper Integrals
8.1 Basic Integration Rules
8.2 Integration by Parts
8.3 Trigonometric Integrals
8.4 Trigonometric Substitution
8.5 Partial Fractions
8.6 Integration by Tables and Other Integration Techniques
8.7 Indeterminate Forms and L' Hopital's Rule
8.8 Improper Integrals
9 Infinite Series
9.1 Sequences
9.2 Series and Convergence
9.3 The Integral Test and p-Series
9.4 Comparisons of Series
9.5 Alternating Series
9.6 The Ratio and Root Tests
9.7 Taylor Polynomials and Approximations
9.8 Power Series
9.9 Representation of Functions by Power Series
9.10 Taylor and Maclaurin Series
10 Conics, Parametric Equations, and Polar Coordinates
10.1 Conics and Calculus
10.2 Plane Curves and Parametric Equations
10.3 Parametric Equations and Calculus
10.4 Polar Coordinates and Polar Graphs
10.5 Area and Arc Length in Polar Coordinates
Who Should Take This Class?
This course is suitable for students who have completed Algebra2 and Pre Calculus.