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Spring 2014
May 14, 2024
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MA 23100 - Calculus For The Life Sciences I
Credit Hours: 3.00. Limits, continuity, differentiation of functions including trig, log, and exponential functions, chain rule, higher order derivatives, applications including max., min., and exponential growth and decay, integration by substitution, and fundamental theorem of calculus. Credit by examination is not available. Typically offered Fall Spring.
3.000 Credit hours

Syllabus Available
Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional
Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture

Offered By: College of Science
Department: Mathematics

Course Attributes:
Lower Division, GTC-Quantitative Reasoning, UC-Quantitative Reasoning

May be offered at any of the following campuses:     
      West Lafayette

Learning Outcomes: 1. To simplify difference quotients. 2. To compute limits of functions and apply limit laws. 3. To apply rules of differentiation to compute derivatives of elementary functions. 4. To sketch the graph of functions with the help of differentiation techniques. 5. To find maxima and minima of functions; optimization problems. 6. To compute integrals of some elementary functions and to apply the fundamental theorem of Calculus.


Prerequisites:
ALEKS Math Assessment 070 or (Undergraduate level MA 15300 Minimum Grade of B- and Undergraduate level MA 15400 Minimum Grade of C-) or Undergraduate level MA 15800 Minimum Grade of C- or Undergraduate level MA 15900 Minimum Grade of C-

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