Mathematics II

Objectives

Elementary knowledge in agreement with the program.

General characterization

Code

7399

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Manuel Messias Rocha de Jesus

Hours

Weekly - 6

Total - 104

Teaching language

Português

Prerequisites

The student must be familiar with mathematics taught at pre-university level in Portugal (science area).

Bibliography

  1. ANTON, Howard; Bivens Irl; Davis Stephen - Cálculo vol I e II, 8ª edição, Bookman, 2007.

  2. Bento, Murteira- Probabilidades e Estatistica volI e II, McGraw-Hill.

  3. Spiegel, Murray- Estatistica, McGraw-Hill, 1984.

Teaching method

In theoretical sessions the contents of the course are exposed and illustrated with examples. In problem-solving sessions students will be asked to solve problems.

Any questions/doubts are clarified during classes or tutorial sessions or even in extra sessions combined directly between student and teacher.

Evaluation method

Students must attend, at least, 2/3 of problem-solving classes.

Each student will be evaluated by two tests or an exam. More details in the portuguese version.

Subject matter

Applications of differential calculus

-Functions of more than one variable: partial derivatives.

-Linear regression line of a set of points.

-Errors in measurements. Maximum error propagation: estimation. Addition and multiplication. Linear approximation of a function in the neighborhood of a point in the domain. Maximum error propagation: general case of a function of several variables.

Integral Calculus

-Notion of integral of a function in an interval. Average value of a function.

-Calculation of primitives and integrals. Primitive by parts.

-Differential equations of separable variables. Problems with initial conditions.

Introduction to probability and statistics

-Discrete and continuous random variables.

-Mean, variance and standard deviation of a random variable.

-The Normal distribution.

-Sample mean, variance and standard deviation.

-Mean, variance and standard deviation of the sum and mean of random variables.

-Confidence interval for the mean of a known normal population in a sample. t-student distribution.

- Significance tests for means.

-Proportion of two classes in a population. Test to compare proportions.

-Unilateral and bilateral tests.

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