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Course Detail

Course Name Single variable calculus and Matrix Algebra
Course Code 25MAT104 IDC
Program B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry
Semester 1
Credits 3
Campus Amritapuri , Coimbatore

Syllabus

Unit 1

Review Functions, shifting, and scaling. Limits, one-sided limits, and limits at infinity, Continuity, types of discontinuities.

Unit 2

Derivatives, differentiation techniques, implicit differentiation. Applications of Derivative Extreme values of functions, Concavity, and Curve Sketching.

Unit 3

Integration – Definite Integrals, Properties of definite integrals. Integration techniques integration by parts and integration by substitution. Fundamental theorem of Calculus. Applications of Integrals -Volumes by slicing and rotation about an axis.

Unit 4

Review Matrices, operations on matrices, determinants. Linear systems, Gauss elimination, linear independence, rank of a matrix.

Unit 5

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Symmetric, Skew Symmetric and Orthogonal matrices, Eigen bases, Diagonalization.

Objectives and Outcomes

Course Outcomes:

CO1: Understand the elementary functions and concepts of limit, continuity, derivative, and integral

CO2: Analyze various techniques of differentiation and integration.

CO3: Applications of differentiation and integration.

CO4: Evaluate linear independence and rank and solve for a system of linear equations.

CO5: Analyze the notion of eigenvalues and eigenvectors, eigen basis and the possibility ofdiagonalization

Text Books / References

TEXTBOOKS:

1. Calculus, G. B. Thomas, Pearson, 2009, Eleventh Edition.

2. Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Erwin Kreyszig, Wiley India, Tenth Edition, 2015.

REFERENCE BOOKS :

1. George Turrell, Mathematics for Chemistry and Physics, Academic Press, 2002.

2. Herbert S. Wilf, Applied Mathematics for Physical Chemistry, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1998.

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