MAT 255: Calculus I

4 credits

This is an introduction to Calculus as applied in the Social or Life Sciences. Its focus is interpreting a narrative quantitatively. Topics include: limits, derivatives, techniques of finding derivatives of polynomials, exponential and log functions, derivatives of sums, differences, products, quotients, and composites of functions, continuity, differentiability, maxima, minima, extreme value theorem, higher derivatives and their applications, indeterminate forms and L’Hopital’s rule, anti-derivatives and indefinite integrals, integrating polynomials, exponential and inverse functions, integration by substitution, definite integrals, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, area between curves, tables of integrals, separable differential equations, functions of two variables, partial derivatives, second order partial derivatives, extrema of functions of two variables, and integration over two variables. Offered even Fall.

Prerequisite(s): MAT 165 or equivalent.
Co-requisite(s): None.