Can I use a calculator, graphing calculator, computer, or notes on an exam?
You can use any resources you find helpful to learn the material in these courses as well as you can, calculators, graphing calculators, computer algebra, calculus, and general math software systems like Maple, Matlab, or Mathematica; also other books, teachers, tutors, students, etc. The only restriction is for the tests. The exams are not open book, and you cannot bring a note sheet such as the practice exam solutions we provide with our own discussion of many of the key concepts and techniques we wish you to learn for each exam. Because of this, we will include right on the test any formulas other than those that you should reasonably be expected to know as part of the course material. For instance you will be expected to learn the rules and formulas for basic differentiation and integration, but if we want to use (as opposed to derive) an involved integral formula like those in the integral tables in the back of the book, we will provide it for you. There are reasons we have restri
