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2024-2025 Springfield College Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Springfield College Catalog

MATH 131 - Introduction to Calculus with Applications


This course is an introduction to differential and integral calculus for those students who intend to take calculus as a terminal mathematics course. Topics to be considered include limits, continuity, the definition of the derivative, the product, quotient and chain rules of differentiation, implicit differentiation, optimization, indefinite and definite integrals, and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Applications of calculus are stressed, including applications to the biological sciences.
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: MATH 125 - Precalculus  or equivalent.