203 Mathematics

In this course you will need to be able to differentiate, integrate and know about complex numbers.

The *minimum* entry maths requirement is very low for chemistry, this means you will need to put some extra work in if you have not taken maths with calculus at university level, ie Math141 and Math142

Engineering books often provide a very good resource, we recommend the following text which is available as an e-version from the library don't be put off by the title! this is a good resource

Engineering Mathematics: a Foundation for Electronic, Electrical, Communications and Systems Engineers, 4th edition or later, by Anthony Croft, Robert Davison, Martin Hargreaves and James Flint, Pearson, 2012.

important self test examples can be found here pdf, if you cannot do these you need to do some work before the course starts. This document also includes the exact chapters and exercises to work from in the Engineering Mathematics text book

More generally recommended reading from this textbook:

• Chapter 9: Complex Numbers
• Chapter 10 & 11: Differentiation
• Chapter 13 & 14: Integration
• Chapter 19: Ordinary differential equations, specifically section 19.5
• Chapter 25: Functions of several variables, specifically 15.1-25.3 covering partial derivatives

We will have a set of mathematics tutorials in week 2 and 3. Do NOT wait for these, DO your preperation / revision now. You will benefit much more from the tutorial if you have the basics, and we can cover more advanced differentiation, integration in the tutorials.

Other resources:

Maths for Chemists a RSC tutorial chemistry text, Martin Cockett and Graham Doggett, RSC publishing, an e-version is available from the library.

Maths for Chemists book from Birmingham and Leeds universities distributed by the Royal Society of Chemistry covering the very basic principles link

Atkins Physical Chemistry in particular the Appendix "Mathematical techniques"

The Chemistry Maths Book, Erich Steiner, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK 2008