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QC1507: MATHEMATICS FOR SCIENCES (2023-2024)

Last modified: 05 Oct 2023 08:46


Course Overview

The course is aimed at a general science audience and it focuses on providing the students with the working knowledge of a good set of mathematical skills needed in all science subjects.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 1
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Offshore Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Juliano Morimoto

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Bachelor Of Science In Computing Science (Qatar)
  • Either Programme Level 1 or Programme Level 2

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This is a maths course for all science students. It aims at providing the students with a good set of working mathematical knowledge needed in nearly all science subjects including Biology, Chemistry and others. The main emphasis is on gaining practical skills together with understanding the mathematics behind them. The topics discussed in the course will include: Manipulations with numbers, Algebraic manipulations and applications; Area and Volume; Graphs and relationships; Rate of change; Formulae for derivatives; Recurrences, Exponentials, Powers and Logarithms; Trigonometry; Differential equations; Lotka-Volterra Models for population dynamics.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

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Assessment Type Summative Weighting 25
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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseUnderstand the concept of derivatives, and be able to compute the derivatives of some simple functions, either by studying rates of change, or by the use of direct formulae.
ConceptualRememberBe familiar with elementary trigonometric functions (sin, cos and tan), and be able to use them to solve various “real-life” problems
ConceptualUnderstandUnderstand the concepts of exponentials, powers and logarithms, the links between them, and some of their elementary properties

Online Test

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualApplyManipulate and multiply integral and rational powers, as well as polynomials
ProceduralAnalyseApply a rule of three to solve dilution and concentration problems
ProceduralApplySolve simple linear equations
ProceduralApplyCompute the equation of a straight line given two points, or one point and the slope, and be able to compute the coordinates of the intersection of two straight lines
ProceduralApplyCompute the perimeter, surface area and volume of simple objects (cuboid, sphere, pyramid, cone, …), and apply these to study more complicated objects

Exam

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 50
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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseUnderstand the concept of derivatives, and be able to compute the derivatives of some simple functions, either by studying rates of change, or by the use of direct formulae.
ConceptualApplyManipulate and multiply integral and rational powers, as well as polynomials
ConceptualRememberBe familiar with elementary trigonometric functions (sin, cos and tan), and be able to use them to solve various “real-life” problems
ConceptualUnderstandUnderstand the concepts of exponentials, powers and logarithms, the links between them, and some of their elementary properties
ProceduralAnalyseApply a rule of three to solve dilution and concentration problems
ProceduralAnalyseBe familiar with Lotka-Volterra models for inter-specific competition, and use the concepts of isoclines and phase plane to determine their outcome
ProceduralApplyCompute the perimeter, surface area and volume of simple objects (cuboid, sphere, pyramid, cone, …), and apply these to study more complicated objects
ProceduralApplySolve simple linear equations
ProceduralApplyCompute the equation of a straight line given two points, or one point and the slope, and be able to compute the coordinates of the intersection of two straight lines

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

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Best of (100% resit exam) and (50% resit exam plus carried-over marks from the online tests)

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandUnderstand the concepts of exponentials, powers and logarithms, the links between them, and some of their elementary properties
ConceptualApplyManipulate and multiply integral and rational powers, as well as polynomials
ConceptualAnalyseUnderstand the concept of derivatives, and be able to compute the derivatives of some simple functions, either by studying rates of change, or by the use of direct formulae.
ConceptualRememberBe familiar with elementary trigonometric functions (sin, cos and tan), and be able to use them to solve various “real-life” problems
ProceduralAnalyseBe familiar with Lotka-Volterra models for inter-specific competition, and use the concepts of isoclines and phase plane to determine their outcome
ProceduralApplyCompute the perimeter, surface area and volume of simple objects (cuboid, sphere, pyramid, cone, …), and apply these to study more complicated objects
ProceduralApplySolve simple linear equations
ProceduralAnalyseApply a rule of three to solve dilution and concentration problems
ProceduralApplyCompute the equation of a straight line given two points, or one point and the slope, and be able to compute the coordinates of the intersection of two straight lines

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