Individual course details
Study programme General Physics, Applied and Computational Physics
Chosen research area (module)  
Nature and level of studies Undergraduate studies
Name of the course Mathematics 1
Professor (lectures) Dr Branka Pavlović
Professor/associate (examples/practical) Matija Milović
Professor/associate (additional)  
ECTS 8 Status (required/elective) required
Access requirements None
Aims of the course Introduction to the basics of mathematical logic, set theory, and real analysis. Mastering of the basic techniques of differential and integral calculus which are necessary for understanding material taught in physics. Ability to solve some first order ordinary differential equations which are important in physics. 
Learning outcomes Ability to use differential and integral calculus in one variable in the material incountered in studying physics and ability to solve first order ordinary diferential equations which appear in standard problems in the physics curiculum.  
Contents of the course
Lectures 1. Introduction: basics of mathematical logic and set theory; relations and functions; equipotent sets; most important algebraic structures; fields of real and complex numbers. (4 lectures)
2. Limits of sequences: basic theorems; convergence of monotone sequences; number e; lim sup and lim inf; subsequences; Cauchy's convergence criterion. (6 lectures)
3. Convergence of functions: definition of a convergence of a function, some basic limits (limx->0 (sin x)/x,   limx->∞ (1+1/x)x), Cauchy's criterion, infinitely small functions and symbols
o and O. (5 lectures)
4. Continuous functions: continuity of a composition of functions and of the inverse of a function; continuity of the elementary functions; basic theorems including Weierstrass and Bolzano-Cauchy; uniform continuity and theorem of Cantor.  (5 lectures)
5. Derivative of a function: definition and its geometric interpretation; basic theorems (Fermat's, Rolle's, Lagrange's, Cauchy's); L'Hospital's rules; Taylor's formula and main Maclaurin's formulae; convexity of a function; analysis of a function and sketching its graph. (12 lectures)
6. Differential of a function: definition and its geometric interpretation. (2 lectures)
7. Indefinite integral: basic integration methods; integration of rational, trigonometric, exponential and some irrational functions. (10 lectures)
8. Definite integral: definition, criteria for integrability and its consequences (integrability of a continuous function and of a monotone function); mean value theorem; derivative on the upper limit; Newton-Leibniz rule; some applications of definite integral (length of an arc, area and volume). (8 lectures)
9. Ordinary differential equations: general concepts; first order equations (equations which separate variables, linear homogeneous equations, Bernouli's equation and Riccati's equation)  (8 lectures)
Examples/ practical classes Teaching assistant sessions: elaboration of the material presented at the lectures; problem solving and examples encountered in physics. 
Recommended books
1 D. Adnadjević, Z. Kadelburg, Matematička analiza I, 10. ed., Matematički fakultet, Krug, Beograd, 2012.
2 R. Šćepanović, J. Knežević-Miljanović, Lj. Protić, Diferencijalne jednačine, 4. ed., Matematički fakultet, Beograd, 2008.
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Number of classes (weekly)
Lectures Examples&practicals   Student project Additional
4 4      
Teaching and learning methods Lectures (presentation of theory and working out of the main examples),
Teaching assistant sessions (problem solving), midterm examinations. 
Assessment (maximal 100)
assesed coursework mark examination mark
coursework   written examination 60
practicals   oral examination 40
papers      
presentations