CalculusI - Major Mathss
CalculusI - Major Mathss
Course objectives/Outcome:
After the completion of this course, the students shall be able to:
1. Understand continuity and differentiability of a function.
2. Find tangent/normal of a curve, curvature and radius of curvature of a function.
3. Find the expansion of various functions.
4. Understand indeterminate forms, homogeneous functions and partial differentiation.
Unit I
Functions of one variable, limit and continuity of a function (ε-δ Definition), properties of continuousfunctions on
closed and bounded intervals, classification of discontinuities. Successive differentiation, nth derivatives of (𝑎𝑥 +
𝑏)n, sin(𝑎𝑥 + 𝑏), cos(𝑎𝑥 + 𝑏) , log(𝑎𝑥 + 𝑏), 𝑒𝑎𝑥 sin(𝑏𝑥 + 𝑐), 𝑒𝑎𝑥 cos(𝑏𝑥 + 𝑐). Successive differentiation using method
of partial fractions, Leibnitz’s theorem.
Unit II
Tangents and normals (polar coordinates only), angle between radius vector and tangent, perpendicular from pole to
tangent, angle of intersection of two curves, polar tangent, polar normal, polar sub-tangent, polar sub-normal. Curvature
and radius of curvature of a function at a point, asymptotes, asymptotes parallel to the axes, oblique asymptotes of nth
degree curve, singular points, classification of double points.
Unit III
Roll’s theorem, Mean value theorems and their geometrical interpretations, Taylor’s theorem with
Lagrange’s and Cauchy’s forms of remainders, Taylor’s series, Maclaurin’s series of sin 𝑥, cos 𝑥, 𝑒𝑥,
log(1 + 𝑥) , (1 + 𝑥)𝑛.
Unit –IV
Indeterminate forms, Partial differentiation, total differentiation, Homogenous functions, Euler’s theorem on
homogenous functions. Some problems on Euler’s theorem.