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- UCAS course code
- F104
- UCAS institution code
- M20
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Master of Chemistry (MChem)
MChem Chemistry with International Study
Expand your Chemistry experience and opportunities with a year abroad.
Duration: 4 years
Year of entry: 2025
UCAS course code: F104 / Institution code: M20
- Key features:
Study abroad
Accredited course
- Typical A-level offer: A*AA including specific subjects
- Typical contextual A-level offer: AAA including specific subjects
- Refugee/care-experienced offer: AAB including specific subjects
- Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 37 points overall with 7,6,6 at HL, including specific requirements
Course unit details:
Mathematics 1Q1
| Unit code | MATH19641 |
|---|---|
| Credit rating | 10 |
| Unit level | Level 1 |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 1 |
| Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Aims
The course unit aims to provide a course in calculus and algebra to students with A-level mathematics or equivalent in the School of Chemistry.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding: Be familiar with functions and geometry, differentiation, integration, vectors, simple ordinary differential equations and complex numbers.
Intellectual skills: Be able to carry out routine operations involving the topics in the syllabus
Transferable skills and personal qualities: Have a set of tools and methods that can be applied in the courses given in the host department or in subsequent years.
Syllabus
3 - 4 lectures: Functions and Geometry : Rational Functions, Partial Fractions, Binomial. Inverse Trigonometric Functions; sec, csc and cot; trig identities; equations of lines and circles, parametric equations; polar coordinates.
4 lectures : Differentiation : Simple Functions; product, quotient and chain rules; Parametric and Implicit Differentiation.
3-4 lectures Integration : Indefinite and Definite Integrals; Integration of simple functions; Integration by parts and of (simple) rational functions.
5 lectures Vectors : Vectors in component form; vector addition, parallelogram and triangle of vectors. Vector equation of straight line. Scalar and vector products. Triple Products
3 lectures : Introduction to ODEs. : Examples of First and Second order ODEs. Role of arbitrary constants. Solution of First-order separable ODEs.
3 lectures : complex numbers. Concept, real and imaginary parts, arithmetic operations. Polar form.
Assessment methods
| Method | Weight |
|---|---|
| Other | 20% |
| Written exam | 80% |
Diagnostic Followup Coursework (week 4); Weighting within unit 4%
Coursework 2 (week 7); Weighting within unit 8%
Coursework 3 (week 11); Weighting within unit 8%
End of semester 1 examination; Weighting within unit 80%
Recommended reading
KA Stroud, Engineering Mathematics, Palgrave
Croft et al., Introduction to Engineering Mathematics, Pearson
Study hours
| Scheduled activity hours | |
|---|---|
| Assessment written exam | 2 |
| Lectures | 22 |
| Tutorials | 10 |
| Independent study hours | |
|---|---|
| Independent study | 66 |
Teaching staff
| Staff member | Role |
|---|---|
| Carl Whitfield | Unit coordinator |
Additional notes
This course unit detail provides the framework for delivery in 20/21 and may be subject to change due to any additional Covid-19 impact.
Please see Blackboard / course unit related emails for any further updates