- Course Code
- MA 1002
- Credit Points
- 20
- Course Coordinator
- Dr L Iancu
Pre-requisites
SCE H or GCE A level in Mathematics. This course may not be included in a minimum curriculum with EG 1006.
Overview
Calculus enables changing situations and complicated averaging processes to be described in precise ways. It was once of the leading intellectual achievements of the late 17-th and early 18-th Century. Early applications were made to modeling planetary motion and to calculating tax payable on land. Now the ideas are used in broad areas of mathematics and science and parts of the commercial world. The course develops the basic ideas of the differential and integral calculus of a single variable and explains some of the ways they are applied.
Structure
12 week course - 4 lectures and 1 tutorial per week.
Assessment
1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination paper (70%) and in-course assessment (30%).
Resit: 1 two-hour written examination paper (maximum of 100% resit and 70% resit with 30% in-course assessment).