COURSE SYLLABUS

Ohio Northern University

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Mathematics

Date: Spring 2006

Course: MATH 155 Name: Calculus for Life Sciences 2

Credit hours: 4 Lecture hours/week: 4 Lab hours/week: 0

Instructor: Staff

Usual student level: freshman

Course required of students in:

Course frequency per year: 1 section per year

Average enrollment per year: 20

This course has a prerequisite: MATH 154 or equivalent

This course is a prerequisite for:

Catalogue Description:

Additional topics in integration, functions of several variables, elementary differential equations.

Course Objectives:

To introduce the student to further study in calculus.

Textbook: Applied Calculus for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences, Eighth Edition, by Barnet, Ziegler and Byleen, Prentice-Hall

Outline of content follows:

(see attached)

Course Outline

MATH 155

Calculus for Life Sciences 2

The Definite Integral

Definite and Indefinite Integrals, The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Techniques of Integration, Area Between Curves

Functions of Several Variables

Examples of functions of several variables, Partial Derivatives, Optimization.

Differential Equations

Basic Concepts, Growth and Decay, Separation of Variables, First Order Linear Differential Equations