MAT 21A - Calculus

Approval Status

Approved

Date Reviewed

July 2012
Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: two years of high school algebra, plane geometry, plane trigonometry, and analytic geometry, and satisfying the Mathematics Placement Requirement. Functions, limits, continuity. Slope and derivative. Differentiation of algebraic and transcendental functions. Applications to motion, natural growth, graphing, extrema of a function. Differentials. L'Hopital's rule. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 16B, 16C, 17B, or 17C. Only 2 units of credit to students who have completed course 16A or 17A. GE credit: SciEng | QL, SE, SL.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)

Course Type

Lower Division