UCLA Department of Mathematics

Math 3A: General Course Outline

Catalog description

3A. Calculus for Life Science Students. Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: three and one-half years of high school mathematics (including trigonometry). Prerequisite: successful completion of Mathematics Diagnostic Test or Mathematics 1 at UCLA (C- or better). Not open for credit to students with credit in another calculus sequence. Techniques and applications of differential calculus. Introduction to the integral. P/NP or letter grading.

Textbook

J. Stewart/S. T. Tan, Calculus (Customized Version), Brooks/Cole, ISBN 0-534-50072-2

Reviews and Exams

The following schedule, with textbook sections and topics, is based on 26 lectures and two midterm exams.

Schedule of Lectures

LectureSectionTopic
1 2.1The Tangent and Velocity Problems
2 2.2The Limit of a Function
3 2.3Calculating Limits using the Limit Laws
4 2.4Continuity
52.5Limits involving Infinity
6 2.6Tangents, Velocities, and Other Rates of Change
7 2.7Derivatives
8 2.8The Derivative as a Function
9 2.9Linear Approximations
10 2.10What does f' say about f ?
11 Exam
12 3.1Derivatives of Polynomials and Exponential Functions
13 3.2The Product and Quotient Rules
14 3.3Rates of Change in the Natural and Social Sciences
15 3.4Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions
16 3.5The Chain Rule
17 3.6Implicit Differentiation
18 3.7Derivatives of Logarithmic Functions
19 3.8Linear Approximations and Differentials
20 4.1Related Rates
21 4.2Maximum and Minimum Values
22 Exam
23 4.3Derivatives and the Shapes of Curves
24 4.5Indeterminate Forms and l'Hospital's Rule
25-6 4.6Optimization Problems
27 4.8Newton's Method
28 4.9Antiderivatives

Outline: D. Cohen 7/98

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