Mathematics 102, Section 101

Differential Calculus with Applications to Life Sciences

Department of MathematicsUndergraduate Math coursesUniversity of British Columbia

Prerequisites: New prerequisites are in place. These are explained at http://www.math.ubc.ca/Ugrad/m110.shtml


Instructor

John MacDonald

 E-mail    mailto: johnm@math.ubc.ca 
 Office  Math Annex 1216
 Phone  604 822-5004
 Home page  http://www.math.ubc.ca/~johnm/

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I will post all handouts, problem sets, final grades, etc. on the web here.


Topics

  1. Review of straight lines
  2. Review of Simple Functions
  3. Average velocity, Secant lines, derivatives
  4. The derivative
  5. What the derivative tells us about a function
  6. Optimization
  7. Chain Rule, Related Rates, Implicit Differentiation
  8. Exponential functions and logarithms
  9. Exponential Growth and Decay: Differential Equations
  10. Trigonometric functions
  11. Inverse trigonometric functions
  12. Approximation Methods
  13. More differential equations

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