Calculus for Business, Social, and Life Sciences (OT36)

Catalog description

This course explores differential and integral calculus as applied to business, social sciences, and life sciences. Topics include functions, limits, and derivatives of algebraic, exponential, and logarithmic functions; applications of derivatives to maximum and minimum values of a function; cost, revenue, profit, supply, and demand; growth rates; decay rates, definite and indefinite integrals, improper integrals, differential equations, multivariable calculus, applications of the integral, consumers' and producers' surplus, integration of rate functions, growth models, and Cobb-Douglas production functions. Students must supply a graphing calculator.