Official AP Calculus Thread for 2009

<p>^ well we do live in Canada. And both aren’t offered at our school… those of us doing BC are self-studying it.</p>

<p>^ I know silly. </p>

<p>What about them though? Convergence and Divergence is all about the test. Learn them. </p>

<p>Taylor Series is just the formula, look it up, unless you know it by memory. You should know sin x, cos x e^x, and -ln(1-x). Not too sure on the last one. Knowing 1/(1-x) wouldn’t hurt either. </p>

<p>Maclaurin is just taylor centered around x = 0. </p>

<p>Aside from that, nothing else on series. Just a little innovation.</p>

<p>EDIT:
Neither BC nor AB is offered at my school, so…yeah.</p>

<p>Jesus christ. Did anyone practice the open ended problems from the 2007 BC exam? Did anyone think they were a lot harder than 2008 and previous years?</p>

<p>Doesn’t look that bad.</p>

<p>3a is mad cute, though.</p>

<p>Not sure if this question has been asked, but how many of the integral/derivative trig/inverse trig functions should we know? Also does anyone have any program recommendations for the calculator, so far I haven’t had much trouble on practice FRQ’s with the programs I have but who knows.</p>

<p>“3a is mad cute, though.”</p>

<p>basically this</p>

<p>I guess the hardest one was really the polar one and the last one, the taylor one. Oh god, horrible. If you messed up in the beginning there, the rest of your answers are completely wrong.</p>

<p>Hard to mess up 6a since e^x = 1 + x + x^2/2! + x^3/3!</p>

<p>Just swap x for -x^2.</p>

<p>I need help with this mult choice question:</p>

<p>The function f has a continuous derivative. The table above gives values of f and its derivative for x=0 and x=4. If integral from 0 to 4 f(x) = 8, what is the value of integral from 0 to 4 (xf’(x)) ?</p>

<p>table: for x=0, f(x)=2 f’(x)=5
for x=4 f(x)=-3 f’(x)=11</p>

<p>-20 -13 -12 -7 36 ? thanks in advance!</p>

<p>For the record, Shell method is NOT on the BC Calculus Exam.
Any volumetric questions will be doable by washer or disc.</p>

<p>Additonally,
did anyone see Jenovo’s post a while back with this practice test?
<a href=“http://ww2.wyomingcityschools.org/~harmsm/ap%20central%20practice%20bc%20exam/college%20board%20bc%20practice%20exam.pdf[/url]”>http://ww2.wyomingcityschools.org/~harmsm/ap%20central%20practice%20bc%20exam/college%20board%20bc%20practice%20exam.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
This is a Collegeboard official practice test…and most of our class failed. Please someone tell me this is harder than actual?</p>

<p>is this an ab thread or bc??</p>

<p>@kthejohnster
seems like both</p>

<p>BUMP my question</p>

<p>int. x f’x is parts. </p>

<p>u = x , dv = f’</p>

<p>du = 1, v = f</p>

<p>xf - int f 1 </p>

<p>thus, xf - F from 0 to 4.</p>

<p>Also note that F(4) - F(0) = 8, thus F(0) - F(4) = -8</p>

<p>Thus, we have (4f(4) - F(4) ) - (0f(0) - F(0)).</p>

<p>(-12 - F(4) ) - (- F(0))</p>

<p>-12 - F(4) + F(0)</p>

<p>F(0) - F(4) - 12. </p>

<p>Thus, -8 - 12 = -20</p>

<p>Unless my alg. failed me.</p>

<p>Is there a way to determine whether you’ll get form A or form B? Or is it random or are they separate testing for different places/people?</p>

<p>did anyone do the FRQ on AB form B they seem harder than form A it got me nervous</p>

<p>It is random for different places and people</p>

<p>Can we have programs on out graphing calcs? I dont know if they are gonna clear the calculator.</p>

<p>they aren’t</p>

<p>My teacher said we can have programs.</p>

<p>did anyone do the FRQ on AB form B they seem harder than form A it got me nervous??</p>