Calculus 1 | Makerere University Courses

Instructor:

Nakakawa

Course Venue:

J201

Statistics and Applied Economics

JICA Building

College of Business and Management Sciences

Course Code:

MTH 1101

Course Credit Units:

Semester:

Semester 1

Year of Study:

Year 1

Undergraduate or Graduate Level:

Undergraduate Level

College:

College of Education and External Studies

School:

School of Education (SoE)

Course Discipline:

Mathematics.

Course Description & Objectives:

This course introduces the two main branches of Calculus: Differential and Integral Calculus. Differential Calculus studies rates of change in one quantity relative to rate of change in another quantity and Integral Calculus studies the accumulation of quantities such as distance travelled or area under a curve. The two processes are inversely related as specified by the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this course the student should be able to:

demonstrate a good overall conceptual understanding of functions and their graphical, numerical, analytical, and verbal representations
state and prove theorems on limits; compute limit of a function
identify functions that are continuous
compute derivative of a function from first principles
apply differentiation to solve real life problems
evaluate the definite integral of a function as a limit of Riemann sums
apply integration to compute area of region, volume of a solid.

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