Requirements/prerequisites: none.

Duration: Michaelmas term, 11 weeks

Number of lectures per week: This is the first semester module of a two semester seqeuence. It leads on to module MA1S12 in the second semester. (MA1S11 and MA1S12 each have 10 ECTS credits. There will be separate results for MA1S11 and MA1S12, weighted as 10 credits each, and compensation rules will apply according to the degree programme.) For the first semester, there will be 6 lectures, 2 tutorials and, for several of the weeks, 1 computer practical.

Assessment: Practical work, assignments, tutorial work and computer lab assignment results will count for 25% of the marks, There will be final examination in June counting for the remaining 75%.

End-of-year Examination: Three hour exam.

Description:

Calculus with applications for Scientists

The lecturer for this part will be Dr. Sint. The main textbook will be [Anton] and the syllabus will be approximately 7 Chapters of [Anton] (numbered differently depending on the version and edition)

Chapter headings are

• Before Calculus (9th ed) {was `Functions' in the 8th edition};

• Limits and Continuity;

• The Derivative;

• The Derivative in Graphing and Applications;

• Integration;

• Exponential, Logarithmic and Inverse Trigonometric Functions;

Discrete Mathematics for Scientists

The order of the topics listed is not chronological. Some of the topics listed below linear algebra will be interspersed with linear algebra.

• Linear algebra This reference for this part of the course will be [AntonRorres]. The syllabus will be approximately chapters 1, 3 section 4.1 of [AntonRorres].

  • Vectors, geometric, norm, vector addition, dot product

  • Systems of linear equations and Gauss-Jordan elimination;
  • Matrices, inverses, diagonal, triangular, symmetric, trace;
  • selected application in different branches of science.

• Mathematica. Introduction to the computer algebra (symbolic mathematics) system. Uses for calculus, graphing, matrix calculations. Exercises could include applications of ideas from Maths 1S1 (graphing, Newton's method, numerical integration via trapezoidal rule and Simpsons rule).

• Spreadsheets. A brief overview of what spreadsheets do.

• Numbers. Binary, octal and hexadecimal numbers and algorithms for converting between them.

Essential References

[Anton]

Calculus : single variable / Howard A. Anton, Irl Bivens, Stephen Davis. 9th ed. 2009 [Hamilton 515 P2*8;4, S-LEN 515 P2*8]

Previous edition (includes several variables):
Calculus : Howard Anton, Irl Bivens, Stephen Davis. (Author Anton, Howard; 8th ed; Publisher New York : Wiley, c2005). [Hamilton 515 P2*7, S-LEN 515 P2*7]

[AntonRorres]

Howard Anton & Chris Rorres, Elementary linear algebra : applications version. (Author Anton, Howard; 8th ed.; Publisher New York ; Chichester : John Wiley, 2000). [Hamilton 512.5 L32*7-2, S-LEN 512.5 L32*7-2]

Recommended reference

[Thomas]

Thomas' calculus. Author Weir, Maurice D. Edition 11th ed / based on the original work by George B. Thomas, Jr., as revised by Maurice D. Weir, Joel Hass, Frank R. Giordano Publisher Boston, Mass., London : Pearson/Addison Wesley, c2005. [Hamilton 515.1 K82*10;*]

Sep 30, 2009