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FSU Core Course Descriptions

These course descriptions were current as of Fall 1999. They are provided as a quick quide only. Check with the departments or your advisor for the most current information.

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CHM 1045. General Chemistry I (3). Lecture, three (3) hours per week, and recitation, one (1) hour. Prerequisite: MAC 1105 with a grade of C- or higher or placement beyond MAC 1105 on University's math department exam; Corequisite: CHM 1045L. Chemical symbols, formulas, and equations; the states of matter; electronic structure and bonding. Students taking CHM 1045 after taking CHM 1020 and/or CHM 1030 should contact a chemistry advisor to register for reduced credit. Disclaimer (Use your browser's Back button to return)

CHM 1045L. General Chemistry I Laboratory (1). Laboratory, three (3) hours per week. Corequisite: CHM 1045. Introduction to chemical laboratory. Topics include stoichiometry, atomic spectra, gases, and acids and bases. Safety goggles and a scientific calculator are required for every class. Disclaimer (Use your browser's Back button to return)

PHY 2048C. General Physics A (5). Prerequisite: MAC 2311 with a grade of C or better or consent of instructor; Corequisite (recommended): MAC 2312. An introduction to mechanics, waves, and thermodynamics for physical science majors, designed to be taken as a sequence with PHY 2049C. Calculus is used. Course consists of lectures, recitations, and laboratory. A student who has taken PHY 2053C or an equivalent course may take PHY 2048 rather than 2048C. Disclaimer (Use your browser's Back button to return)

PHY 2049C. General Physics B (5). Prerequisite: PHY 2048C or 2048 with a grade of C or better, or consent of instructor. MAC 2312 is highy recommended and not having it may be a detriment to performance in the class (SvM). An introduction to electricity, magnetism, and optics for physical science majors. Calculus is used. Course consists of lectures, recitations, and laboratory. A student who has taken PHY 2054C or an equivalent course may take PHY 2049 rather than 2049C. Disclaimer (Use your browser's Back button to return)

MAC 1105. College Algebra (3). Recommended background: two years of high school algebra. On basis of test scores the student may be required to take a community college course before MAC 1105. Review of algebraic operations, equations and inequalities; functions and functional notation; graphs; inverse functions; linear, quadratic, rational function; absolute value; radicals; exponential and logarithmic functions; system of equations and inequalities; applications. Disclaimer (Use your browser's Back button to return)

MAC 1114. Analytic Trigonometry (2). Prerequisite: MAC 1105 or appropriate score on a mathematics placement examination. Trigonometric functions, inverse trigonometric functions and their graphs; identities and conditional equations; solution of triangles; trigonometric form of complex numbers; DeMoivre's theorem and nth roots; introduction to plane vectors. May be taken concurrently with MAC 1140. Not doing so might delay graduation by up to a year. Disclaimer (Use your browser's Back button to return)

MAC 1140. Precalculus Algebra (3). Prerequisite: MAC 1105 or appropriate score on a mathematics placement examination. May be taken concurrently with MAC 1114. Not doing so might delay graduation by up to a year. Credit must be reduced to two (2) hours for students having a grade of C- or better in MAC 1141. (See Credit Note 2 above.) Functions and graphs, with emphasis on higher degree polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions; systems of equations; solution of linear systems, matrix methods, determinants; sequences and series, induction, and the binomial theorem. Applications, approximation, and methods of proof. Disclaimer (Use your browser's Back button to return)

MAC 2311. Calculus with Analytic Geometry I (4). Prerequisites: MAC 1140, 1114; or appropriate score on a mathematics placement examination. Students with prior credit in college calculus will be required to reduce the credit for MAC 2311 accordingly. (See Credit Note 2 above.) Limits and continuity, rules of differentiation, the chain rule, derivatives of trigonometric functions, applications of derivatives to curve sketching and maxima/minima problems, the mean value theorem and L'Hopital's rule; the definite and indefinite integrals and the Fundamental Theorem of Integral Calculus, area, volume, hydrostatic force, center of mass and other applications of integrals. Disclaimer (Use your browser's Back button to return)

MAC 2312. Calculus with Analytic Geometry II (4). Prerequisite: MAC 2311. Students with prior credit in this material will be required to reduce the credit for MAC 2312 accordingly. Inverse trigonometric functions; natural logarithms and exponential functions; methods of integration including integration by parts, trigonometric substitution, and partial fractions; conic sections with rotation of coordinates; hyperbolic functions; graphing and area in polar coordinates; infinite sequences and series; tests for absolute and conditional convergence of series; power series. Disclaimer (Use your browser's Back button to return)

MAC 2313. Calculus with Analytic Geometry III (5). Prerequisite: MAC 2312. Vectors and vector functions; dot product, cross-product, curvature, and motion in space; quadric surfaces; functions of two or more variables, partial derivatives, gradients, directional derivatives, tangent lines and planes, and application of partial derivatives to maxima/minima; Lagrange multipliers and Taylor's formula; multiple integrals in rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates and their applications; line integrals; Greens theorem, surface area, the divergence theorem, and Stokess theorem. Disclaimer (Use your browser's Back button to return)

MAP 3305. Engineering Mathematics I (3). Prerequisite: MAC 2313 or MAC 2312 with a grade of B- or better. Not open to students having credit in MAP 2302. Ordinary differential equations. Linear algebra: determinants, matrices, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Systems of first-order differential equations. Disclaimer (Use your browser's Back button to return)

MAP 3306. Engineering Mathematics II (3). Prerequisites: MAC 2313; MAP 2302 or 3305. Not open to students having credit in MAP 4341. Fourier series and integrals, Laplace transform, solution of partial differential equations by separation of variables. Disclaimer (Use your browser's Back button to return)

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