27700 - Matematics L

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Docente: Paolo Negrini
  • Credits: 8
  • SSD: MAT/05
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Industrial Chemistry (cod. 0882)

Course contents

Real numbers; inequalities; absolute value.
elementary real functions: power functions, roots, exponential and logarithm; circular and hyperbolic functions and their inverses.
limits and continuity; basic theorems.
derivatives. basic theorems and applications: tangents to curves, increasing and decreasing functions, convexity; graphs of functions; taylor's formula.
integrals in one variable. primitives; integration of rational functions, integration by substitution and by parts.
ordinary differential equations. methods to solve first order o.d.e. of linear type or separate variables type, and linear o.d.e. of higher order whith constant coefficients.
first elements of differential calculus for several variables. partial derivatives; gradient and hessian matrix. maxima and minima. Double integrals: geometric meaning, calculus by reduction; change of variables; use of polar coordinates.

Readings/Bibliography

P.Negrini-M.Ragagni, Disequazioni algebriche, Pitagora editrice, Bologna.
P.Negrini-M.Ragagni, Disequazioni trascendenti, Pitagora editrice, Bologna.
P.Negrini, Equazioni differenziali, Pitagora editrice, Bologna.
Further notes and sheets of exercises will be distributed by the teacher during the lessons.

Teaching methods

front lessons

Assessment methods

written and oral test

Teaching tools


Office hours

See the website of Paolo Negrini