Course Description
Course Name
Mathematics 1A for Engineers
Session: VCPF3125
Hours & Credits
18 Host University Units
Prerequisites & Language Level
Taught In English
- There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level.
Overview
This course provides an introduction to differential and integral calculus, and topics include: Functions, limits and continuity. Rational functions, the natural exponential and logarithm functions. Radian measure and the Trigonometric functions. The rules of differentiation. Curve sketching. Applications of the mean value theorem. Rates of change and optimization involving functions of a single variable. L'Hospital's rules, indeterminate forms and the squeeze theorem. Anti-differentiation. Finite series, permutations, combinations and the binomial theorem. The definite integral and the fundamental theorem of calculus. The substitution rule.
*Course content subject to change