MATH 138 - Precalculus II (GE)

Credits: (3)

Prerequisites: One of the following: 1) a C or better in MATH 125, 2) a passing score on a placement exam approved by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, or 3) a C or better in a high school precalculus class.

This is the second course in precalculus to prepare undergraduates for the calculus sequence. This course focuses on transformations and inverses of functions, angles and their measurement, trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions and their geometric properties, trigonometric identities, and solving trigonometric equations. Polar coordinates and functions as well as the complex numbers and conics are also included. Throughout the course, students will use established models and applications used in industry.

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