Week Activities

0 No formal assessment or activities are undertaken in week 0

1 VECTORS Definitions, dot product, cross product
2 LINES AND PLANES Construction, vector equations, parametric equations,
systems of equations
3 MATRICES Notation, operations, Gaussian elimination
4 Inverse, transpose and determinant
5 CALCULUS Differentiation
6 Derivatives of trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions
7 Parametric curves and parametric differentiation
8 Function approximation using Taylor series and cubic splines
9 Integration, area under curve, trapezoidal rule
10 MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS Functions of several variables, partial derivatives,
tangent planes
11 Chain rule, directional derivatives, stationary points
12 Optimization examples
SWOT VAC No formal assessment is undertaken in SWOT VAC
Examination period