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MATH121 Calculus

Credits (ECTS):10

Course responsible:Geir Bogfjellmo

Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås

Teaching language:Norsk

Course frequency:Annually

Nominal workload:Lectures: 52 hours. Plenary sessions: 52 hours, exercises: 26 hours. Colloquia and Self-organized study: 120 hours.

Teaching and exam period:This course starts in Autumn parallel. This course has teaching/evaluation in Autumn parallel.

About this course

The real and imaginary number line. Elementary functions and inverse functions. Limits and continuity. Differentiation and applications of the derivative. Analysis of functions and graphs. Riemann integral and basic integration techniques. Elementary series and Taylor series. First and second order ordinary differential equations. Numerical methods for determining roots, numerical integration and numerical solution of first order ODE’s.

Learning outcome

Students are to:

  • acquire the basic ideas and theorems in the theory
  • master the standard methods for analysing and operating with functions with one variable
  • be able to use this knowledge and skills to solve simple applied problems.
  • Learning activities
    The teaching consists of lectures, plenary session, exercise sessions and self-study. Recommmended exercises will be provided.
  • Teaching support
    A teaching assistant is present during all exercise lessons. In addition, the students can contact the course responsible during meeting hours or by e-mail.
  • Prerequisites
    Mathematics R2 from upper secondary school or MATH100. We assume that students follow INF120 the same term.
  • Assessment method
    Digital written examination 3.5 hours in the exam period. A-F

  • Examiner scheme
    The external and internal examiner jointly prepare the exam questions and the correction manual. The external examiner reviews the internal examiner's examination results by correcting a random sample of candidates' exams as a calibration according to the Department's guidelines for examination markings.
  • Mandatory activity
    Midterm exam (Pass/Fail).
  • Teaching hours
    Lectures: 4 hours per week. Plenary sessions: 4 hours per week. Exercises: 6 groups of 2 hours per week.
  • Reduction of credits
    MATH111: 10 credits.
  • Admission requirements
    Samordna opptak code REALR2 or REALFA+MATH100.