MAT1010

Mathematics I

A Pryde

6 points
* Three 1-hour lectures per week and one 1-hour tutorial
* First, second semester
* Clayton
* Prerequisites: VCE Specialist Mathematics and, at levels 3 and 4, Mathematical Methods
* Prohibitions: CSC1080, GAS1611, GAS1613, MAT1050, MAT1420, MAT1430, MAT1811, MAT1841, MAT1910

Objectives On completion of this subject students should know and understand concepts in the areas of continuity, differential and integral calculus, and infinite series; have developed and extended their skills in calculating derivatives, integrals and series, and in applying these concepts and techniques to various problems; and be acquainted with computer algebra and its use in calculus.

Synopsis Limits and continuity. Derivatives and applications. Integration, applications and techniques. Sequences and series; Taylor series. An introduction to computer algebra using DERIVE.

Assessment Examination: 85%
* Assignments: 15%

Prescribed texts

Stewart J Calculus 3rd edn, Brooks Cole, 1995 (packaged together with Heuvers K and others Linear algebra for calculus Brooks Cole, 1991)

Recommended texts

Arianrhod R J and Norton P N An introduction to using the DERIVE package Monash U, 1995