MATH 2004 Calculus at Local College
3 Credits
This course in calculus is intended to develop practical skills in differential and integral calculus. As well, it is intended to illustrate various applications of calculus to technical problems. The rules of differentiation will be introduced, and methods of differentiating various algebraic and transcendental functions will be developed. Applications of differential calculus to finding roots of equations by Newton's method, to finding maxima and minima, and to developing power series representation for functions will be studied. Methods of algebraic integration will be introduced, with both definite and indefinite integrals being determined for a variety of functions. The use of tables of integrals for finding solutions for difficult integrals will be introduced. Numerical integration using Simpson's rule will also be developed. Various applications of integration will be studied including Fourier series. First and second order differential equations will be introduced and methods of solving will be developed. These methods will include laplace transforms.

