MATH 1505 - Precalculus with Trigonometry

Credits: 5 Class: 5 Lab: 0
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in Math 1301, or placement by exam
A thorough treatment of the elementary functions and their graphs including polynomials, rational functions, exponential functions and logarithms, and trigonometric functions. Applications of the elementary functions to practical problems. Topics from trigonometry include fundamental identities, radian measure, graphing, inverse trigonometric functions and solving triangles and trigonometric equations. Topics from plane analytic geometry needed in calculus are also covered including vectors, polar coordinates, conic sections and parametric curves. Concludes with an introduction to sequences and series.