MA101: Single-Variable Calculus I

1.2: Distance between Two Points, Circles

• Whitman College: David Guichard's "Calculus, Chapter 1: Analytic Geometry, Section 1.2: Distance between Two Points; Circles" URL

  Read Section 1.2 (pages 19 and 20). This reading reviews the notions of distance in the plane and the equations and graphs of circles.
  

• Whitman College: David Guichard's "Calculus, Chapter 1: Analytic Geometry, Exercises 1.2, Problems 1, 2, 6" URL

  Please click on the link above, and work through problems 1, 2, and 6 in Exercise 1.2. When you are done, check your answers in Appendix A.

• Temple University: Gerardo Mendoza and Dan Reich's "Calculus on the Web" URL

  Click the link to Book I, and click on the "Index" button. Click on button 5 (Distance) to launch the first module. Complete problems 1-5. Then, return to the index and click on button 8 (Circles II) to launch the other module. Complete problems 1-5. If at any time the problem set becomes too easy for you, feel free to move on.