MATH 130 Mathematics for Biochemistry and Life Sciences Units: 3.00
The course will have four topics, each approximately three weeks long. Topics include a review of functions, limits, and differentiation, antiderivatives, integration and fundamental theorem of calculus, differential equations, and probability.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 72 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a BCHM or LISC Plan.
Recommended 4U Calculus and Vectors (or equivalent).
Exclusion MATH 121/6.0; MATH 123/3.0; MATH 126/6.0.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Use the ideas and methods of the differential and integral calculus to study living systems.
- Work with the basic functions of differential calculus, in particular the exponential and logarithm functions, and solve optimization problems.
- Work with the fundamental processes of integral calculus and differential equations.
- Work with multivariable functions, contour diagrams and phase-plane analysis.
- Work with probabilistic processes, and random variables in both discrete and continuous spaces, involving independent events and conditional probability.