• Archana Receives the Donna B. Hamilton Award

    Archana Khurana has been selected to receive the Donna B. Hamilton Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in a General Education Course.  Awards are based solely on student nominations and are solicited from across campus.  From the many nominations received, the selection committee was very impressed by the student experience… Read More

  • Yanir Receives a Do Good Campus Fund Grant

    Yanir’s proposal on “Incorporating outreach into the curriculum via experiential learning” is one of the only 27 projects out of 140 submissions that were funded by the UMD Do Good Campus Fund. Read More

  • Congrats to 3 CMNS Students Named Goldwater Scholars

    Congratulations to UMD’s 3 Goldwater Scholars this year, all from CMNS: Junior physics and mathematics double-degree student Yash Anand Sophomore atmospheric and oceanic science and physics double-degree student Malcolm Maas Junior biological sciences and mathematics double-degree student Jerry Shen Over the last 15 years, UMD’s nominations yielded 49 scholarships—No. 2… Read More

  • Maria Cameron Receives the 2024 MURI Award

    Congratulations to Maria Cameron for her MURI award. MURI are multidisciplinary university research initiative grants that are awarded by the department of defense. Cameron’s grant is sponsored by the office of naval research. Her team includes Balakumar Balachandran (ME) and Miao Yu (ME). This is a project on “disorder-influenced collective… Read More

  • A $27.2M Gift to the Math Department by the Brin Family

    The university announced today a big gift to the Math Department. The very generous gift of $27.2M was made by Michael & Eugenia Brin. The gift will endow the Brin Mathematics Research Center, establish an endowed chair, and launch a summer camp for high school students. The official university’s press… Read More
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Description

This is a first-semester course in calculus with applications in biology and life-sciences.

Prerequisites

A grade of C- or better in MATH 112, MATH113, or MATH115; or permission of department based on 3 1/2 years of college preparatory mathematics (including trigonometry) and satisfactory performance on the MATHEMATICS PLACEMENT EXAM. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: MATH 130 or MATH 140 or MATH 220.

Topics

Functions, Limits, Continuity

Exponential and Logarithmic Functions and Applications (Growth and Decay)
Trigonometric Functions
Limits, Continuity and Rates of Change

Derivatives

Definition of the Derivative
Techniques for Finding Derivatives, Derivatives of Products and Quotients
The Chain Rule
Derivatives of Exponential, Logarithmic and Trigonometric Functions

Applications of the Derivative

Increasing and Decreasing Functions
Relative Extrema
Higher Derivatives and Concavity
Curve Sketching
Absolute Extrema and Applications of Extrema
Implicit Differentiation
Related Rates

Integrals

Anti-derivatives
Substitutions
Area and Definite Integral
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Integrals of Trigonometric Functions

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