M170 Prerequisites M 175 is the second term in our 3-term calculus sequence. Students should complete M 170, the first term, before enrolling in the second. A few students who have taken a year of calculus in high school begin their BSU calculus experience with this course. If they find they are in over their heads, they can then drop back to M 170. This course is controlled by a departmental committee, whose members may or may not be teaching the course.
All sections use the same text, which is chosen by the committee.
The committee also writes a syllabus detailing which sections should be covered and how much time should be allotted to each. Be able to use tables to find antiderivatives for more difficult cases. Set up as definite integrals those common application problems involving volumes of rotation, arc length, surface area, work. Have an intuitive understanding of the definitions of limit of a sequence and sum of an infinite series. Be able to find intervals of convergence of power series using ratio, root, comparison, and integral tests.