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Pre-University Calculus
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 8 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Understand, visualize and manipulate different elementary functions, like power functions, roots, polynomials, trigonometric functions, exponential and logarithmic functions;
- Understand, visualize and solve equations and inequalities involving these elementary functions;
- Understand the concept of differentiation and calculate the derivatives of compositions of elementary functions;
- Understand the concept of integration and to use some elementary integration techniques;
- Understand, visualize and manipulate geometric objects in the plane, such as vectors, lines, circles and more general curves.
Prerequisite
This course revises high school level mathematics and is aimed to close the readiness gap between high school and university.
Instructors
Bart van den Dries
Lecturer, Mathematics
Delft University of Technology
Roelof Koekoek
Lecturer, Mathematics
Delft University of Technology
Wolter Groenevelt
Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Delft University of Technology
Fokko van de Bult
Lecturer, Mathematics
Delft University of Technology
Iris Smit
Lecturer, Mathematics
Delft University of Technology
Editor
Delft University of Technology (in Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft), better known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest public university in the Netherlands.
It is based in Delft, in the Netherlands. In the QS World University Rankings 2022, it is ranked among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In architecture and civil engineering, it was ranked 2nd in the world, after MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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