Q1.1 What is a function? How many ways are there to present a function?

How to know if a rule is a

function?

Q1.2 Distinguish some special types of functions? What are basic transformations of function?

Q1.3 What is the limit of a function? How to know if a limit exists. If it does, how to calculate it?

Q1.4 Present the continuity of a function. What is the applications of continuous functions?

Q2.1 How many types of assymptote are there? How to find them?

Q2.2 How can you interpret derivative of a function?

Q2.3 Present the rules and differentiation formulas.

Q2.4 What are applications of derivative in different branches?

Q3.1 How to find the derivative of an implicit function?

Q3.2 What is the related rates? How to find the rate of a quantity in terms of its related quantities?

Q3.3 What is the linear approximation?

Q3.4 What is the differential and its applications on error and relative error?

Q4.1 What are local maximum and local minimum of a function? How to find them?

Q4.2 What are absolute maximum and absolute minimum of a function? How to find them?

Q4.3 How the derivative affect the shape of graph?

Q4.4 Present applications of Mean theorem.

Q5.1 How to solve an optimization problem using derivative?

Q5.2 What is the Newton’s method to solve an equation.

Q5.3 What is the antiderivative? What is the indefinite intergral?

Q5.4 Present some problems as applications of antiderivative.

Q6.1 How can you use Riemann sum to find the area under a curve?

Q6.2 What are the definite intergral and its properties? How to calculate definite intergral using
midpoint rule?

Q6.3 State the first form of fundamental theorem of calculus and give its applications.

Q6.4 State the second form of fundamental theorem of calculus and the net change theorem. What are
the relations between them and their applications ?

Q7.1 Present the methods of substitution and intergral by parts.

Q7.2 What is the mean value of a function? Present the numerical intergrations and their error
estimations.
Q7.3 What is an improper intergral of type 1? How to calculate it?

Q7.4 What is an improper intergral of type 2? How to calculate it?

Q8.1 What are linear system and its solution types?

Q8.2 What is a matrix? What is the coefficient/augmented matrix of a linear system?

Q8.3 What are the elementary operations on linear system and matrix?

Q8.4 What are echelon-matrix/reduced echelon matrix ?

Q9.1 How to carry a matrix to echelon-matrix/reduced echelon matrix using Gaussian elimination?

Q9.2 How to solve a linear system using echelon-matrix/reduced echelon matrix ?

Q9.3 What is the rank of a matrix. How the rank of matrix relate to number of parameters in general
solution of a linear system ?

Q9.4 What is a homogeneous linear system? When it has non-trivial solution?

Q10.1 Present matrix addition, scalar multiplication? What are the zero matrix, identity matrix and their
properties?

Q10.2 When does the matrix multiplication can be conducted?

Q10.3 What are properties of matrix multiplication?

Q10.4 What is the power of matrix? When can we expand (A+B)^n?

Q11.1 What is the inverse matrix of a matrix?

Q11.2 What is properties of invertible matrices?

Q11.3 When is a matrix invertible?

Q11.4 What is a linear transformation? Present some linear transformations on R^2?

Q12.1 What are the determinant of a matrix and the co-factor of an element in a matrix ?

Q12.2 Present the co-factor expansion theorem. How to use it to calculate the determinant of 4x4 and
higher matrices?

Q12.3 Present the properties of determinant.

Q12.4 What is the relation between determinant and invertible matrices? How to calculate the inverse
matrix using determinant?

Q13.1 Present the Cramer’s rule for solving square linear system.

Q13.2 What are eigenvalue and eigenvector?

Q13.3 What is the characteristic polynomial of a matrix? How to use it to find eigenvalue and
eigenvector?
Q13.4 How to calculate the sum and product of eigenvalues of a matrix without using characteristic
polynomial ?

Q14.1 What is diagonalization?

Q14.2 When is a matrix diagonalizable?

Q14.3 Interpret the vectors in space.

Q14.4 Write the equation of a line in space?

Q15.1 Present the dot product of two vectors. When are two vectors orthogonal?

Q15.2 Find the projection of a vector on another vector.

Q15.3 Write the equation of a plane. How to calculate the angles between two vectors, between two
lines, between a line and a plane.

Q15.4 Find the projection of a point on a line/plane and the distance between points, lines, planes?

Q16.1 Present the cross product of two vectors in space?

Q16.2 How is the cross product related to determinant? Present the properties of cross product.

Q16.3 How is the cross product related to dot product?

Q16.4 How is the cross product related to angle, area and volume?

Q17.1 Present some linear operators on R^3 ( projection)?

Q17.2 Present some linear operators on R^3 (reflection, rotation)?

Q17.3 How are the area and volume changed through linear operators ?

Q17.4 How does an image change in computer graphic by translations (by a vector)?

Q18.1 Determine if a set is a subspace of R^n. Present some special subspaces of R^n.

Q18.2 Find the eigenspace of a matrix.

Q18.3 What are linear combinations?

Q18.4 How is spanning set related to subspaces?

Q19.1 When is vector system linear independent/dependent?

Q19.2 What are the basic and dimension of a subspace?

Q19.3 What is dot product in R^n. When is a set orthogonal/orthonormal in R^n?

Q19.4 Present the Pythagore theorem/expansion theorem for an orthogonal set.

Q20.1 Present row(A) and col(A) for nxn matrix A.

Q20.2 How the rank of A related to row(A) and col(A)?

Q20.3 Present null(A) and im(A).

Q20.4 How rank(A), row(A),col(A),null(A) and im(A) related to each other?