114 - Algebra and Trigonometry
Not recommended for students with less than an AB in Math 100 or 101.
Math 114 is a course on the mathematical fundamentals required for success in calculus. If you are not planning to take calculus (Math 211 or Math 221) probably you do not want to be in this course. For most, if not all, of you this course will look like a review of the algebra and trigonometry that you took in high school but (according to your placement scores) did not learn well enough to move directly into our fast-paced calculus courses. You should not be lulled into thinking that you know it all and can just coast in the course. We will be covering the topics on a deeper level than you have encountered before, and we will have higher expectations for your grasp of the material and your ability to reason with it clearly and efficiently.
- Basic algebraic material: real numbers, exponents and radicals
- Equations, inequalities and applications
- Complex Numbers
- Rectangular coordinates
- Lines, Functions, and Graphs
- Transformations
- Composition of functions
- Inverse functions
- Polynomial and Rational functions
- Exponential and log functions, and applications
- Angles
- Trig functions and graphs
- Inverse Trig functions
- Right triangles and applications of trigonometry
- Trig Identities and formulas
- Trig equations
- Law of sines, law of cosines
- Vectors