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The document outlines essential mathematical concepts and functions that prospective students should understand before starting undergraduate studies in Biomedical Engineering (BME). It covers elementary functions, their graphs, trigonometric functions, and function transformations. Key topics include domain, range, zeros, monotonicity, and various types of functions such as linear, quadratic, and trigonometric functions.

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The document outlines essential mathematical concepts and functions that prospective students should understand before starting undergraduate studies in Biomedical Engineering (BME). It covers elementary functions, their graphs, trigonometric functions, and function transformations. Key topics include domain, range, zeros, monotonicity, and various types of functions such as linear, quadratic, and trigonometric functions.

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What math should you know before you start

your undergraduate studies at BME?


Review for prospective students

Elementary functions and their graphs

Basic concepts

You should know the following concepts in connection with functions:

Domain The set of values a function can take as an argument.

Range The set of values a function can take up.

Zeros x | f  x   0

Monotonicity

Increasing/decreasing

Minimum/maximum

Even function f   x   f  x  , e.g., y  x 2 (symmetric about the y-axis)

Odd function f   x    f  x  , e.g., y  x3 (symmetric about the origin)

Compound function y  f  g  x 

Elementary functions

Function name Domain  Range Functional form (+graph)

Linear  y  a  x  b , a, b  , a  0 (straight line)

y  a  x2  b  x  c , a, b, c  , a  0 (pa-
Quadratic 
rabola)
y  a  x3  b  x 2  c  x  d , a, b, c, d  ,
Cubic 
a0
Square root

0  
0 y  x (horizontal half parabola)

Cube root  y3 x

Reciprocal \ 0  \ 0 y  1 x (hyperbola)

Absolute value  
0 y x

Exponential  
y  ax , a  0 , a  1

Logarithm 
 y  log a x , a  0 , a  1

Trigonometric functions

Function name Domain → Range Periodicity Notation

Sine   1,1 2 y  sin x

Cosine   1,1 2 y  cos x

Tangent \ k     2 | k    y  tan x

Cotangent \ k   | k    y  cot x

Function transformations

y  c  f  a  x  b   d , a, b, c, d 

Horizontal shift y  f  x  b

Vertical shift y  f  x  d

Reflection about the x-axis y   f  x

Reflection about the y-axis y  f x


Stretch/compress in the x
y  f a  x
direction
Stretch/compress in the y
y  c  f  x
direction

Sample problem:

x 
Which of the following figures shows the graph of f  x   sin      1 ?
2 

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