Effective Fall 2016
MATH 2040-<section #> Applied Calculus I
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Text: Calculus for the Life Sciences 2nd ed. by Greenwell, Ritchey, Lial, e-book custom edition (ISBN 9781323492109). If you already purchased an access code for this text for either Math 1050 or Math 1085, then you do not to need purchase anything. Otherwise, you can purchase the MyMathLab access code (which includes the e-text) at the bookstore, the BookMart, or at <Direct students to the flyer on how to register at MyMathLab, for example on Moodle or include it in the syllabus.>
Math 2040 Prerequisites: Math 1050 with minimum grade of C, or Math 1081 and Math 1085 both with a minimum C grade, or satisfactory score on placement examination; rudimentary knowledge of Microsoft Excel. Students with a grade of less than B- in either Math 1050, or in one of Math 1081 or Math 1085 must enroll concurrently in Math 2041. Intended for Life Science majors.
Math 2040 Catalog course description: Limits, continuity, derivatives, discrete models and their stability, extrema, long-term behavior of systems, approximation, Newton’s method, with a focus on applications in biology.
Topical outline:
Average and instantaneous rate of change; tangent line as limit of secant lines (geometric viewpoint); limits; continuity of a function; rules for computing derivatives for specific types of functions; general rules for derivatives; use of the derivative to determine stability of equilibrium values; logistic dynamical system; use of the derivative to solve maximization problems; long-term behavior of functions; approximation of functions with linear functions and polynomials; Newton’s method for finding roots to determine equilibrium values.
Student Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be:
- able to compute limits and interpret them as long-term behavior of models.
- familiar with the interpretation of the derivative as rate of change.
- able to compute derivatives of functions.
- able to use derivatives to determine the stability of a model.
- able to find maxima and minima of a function.
- able to approximate complicated functions with polynomials.
- able to apply Newton’s method to find equilibrium values of a function.
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