Washington U's Calculus Requirements

[JennyL867]

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Wash U says they require 1 year of calculus through integral and differential equations, but one semester of statistics may be substituted for 1 semester of calculus. I've taken calc I and II and will also be taking a statistics course this fall, so I think I'll be covered. But I'm concerned about not having much info on differential equations. Calc II was basically all integrals, but we did just a little on differential equations. Could they possibly be expecting higher level calculus, but Calc III at my school isn't even differential equations....it's vector calculus?

 

[ShyRem]

dif eq is a separate class called "differential equations"

 

[Wiggy73]

I think they mean differential calculus, which is taking derivatives...which was basically all of Cal I.

 

[jon stewart]

I think they mean differential calculus, which is taking derivatives...which was basically all of Cal I.

thats what i was thinking tooo

 

[Kazazzle12]

I'm pretty sure Wash U's calculus requirement is covered by Calc I (where you cover derivatives = differential calculus) and Calc II (which covers integral calculus). At least I hope so...

 

[Reimat]

Could they possibly be expecting higher level calculus, but Calc III at my school isn't even differential equations....it's vector calculus?

Diff eq's is a upper level, very difficult course for math majors. Most semester long calc courses cover differentiation in calc I, integration in calc II- but in case a school varies they want to make sure you've had exposure to these concepts (which you actually get from calc I)

 

[TehFrr]

Like others are saying, differential equations are not the same as a calculus class. There is a ton of calculus involved though. If you take it, be sure that you are strong on *all* of your previous math - algebra, trig, calc.. It is one of those classes where EVERYTHING comes back at you from previous classes. I know everyone is different, but I ended up getting an A in all of them except diffeq - which gave me the only C I ever got =\

My experience went something like this:
MTH 251 Calc I - Derivatives
MTH 252 Calc II - Integrals
MTH 253 Calc III - Infinite sequences
MTH 254 Calc IV - Vector calculus I (multivairable)
MTH 255 Vector Calc II - Line integrals
MTH 256 Differential Equations


Good luck with the math!!