MEI AS Pure Mathematics - C2
This is only to be used as a rough guide and is not the official specification
Sequences and series
Recurrence relationships
Sigma notation
Arithmetic sequences and series
Geometric Series
Differentiation
Introduction
- The gradient function dy/dx
- terms of the form axn
- Second Derivatives
- Exam Questions
Tangents and Normals
- Tangents and normals
- Exam Questions
Stationary Points
- Stationary points. What are they?
- Finding stationary points (example)
- Nature of a stationary point using the first differential
- Nature of a stationary point using the second differential
- Finding stationary points and their nature example
- Applications
- Exam questions
Increasing and Decreasing functions
Integration
Introduction
Equations of curves
Definite Integration
- Definite integration
- Infinite integrals
- Application - Area
- Area under a curve
- Finding the area below the x-axis
- Finding the area above and below the x-axis
- Finding the area bounded by two curves
- Finding the area between a curve and the y-axis (still to be completed)
- Exam questions
Numerical Integration
Trigonometry
Trigonometric Ratios
- Trig. ratios for 30, 60 and 90 degrees
- Trig. ratios for 45, 45 and 90 degrees
- Trig. ratios for positive multiples of 30, 45 and 60 degrees
- Trig. ratios for negative multiples of 30, 45 and 60 degrees
Graphs
Applications
- Area of a triangle
- Sine Rule
- Cosine Rule
- Arcs, Sectors and Segments
- Exam questions
Logarithms and exponentials
Exponential functions
Logarithms
- What do we mean by a log?
- Rules of logs
- Simplifying
- Equations
- Solving equations 1
- Solving equations 2
- Change of base type
- Solving equations 4
- Inequalities
Modelling Curves of the form y=kxn and y=kax
- Converting to linear form
- numerical example still to come