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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MATH 142 - Precalculus II

3 Credits

Prerequisite(s): MATH 141 or direct placement by way of the University-approved Mathematics Placement Test or by way of transfer credit. This course is the second in a two-semester sequence, MATH 141 Precalculus I and MATH 142 Precalculus II. It is designed for students whose major requires a Calculus course. MATH 142 continues the students’ preparation for Calculus by exploring trigonometry, including fundamental definitions and identities, functions of sums and differences of angles, sine and cosine laws, inverse trigonometric functions, trigonometric equations, graphs of trigonometric functions and their inverses. This course is not recommended as a general education mathematics elective for majors in fields other than mathematics, science, engineering, computer science, and computer technology.