Course topics.

Try this with Mathematics Extension 2

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• The language of proof: implication, converse, contrapositive and proof by contradiction
• Proving inequalities from a > b and the non-negativity of squares
• The triangle inequality and the AM–GM inequality for two numbers
• Induction for series in sigma notation and for non-standard base cases or steps
• Divisibility and inequality proofs by induction
• Induction in calculus, geometry, the binomial theorem and recursive formulae
• Vectors in three dimensions: components, magnitude, the dot product and spheres
• Vector equations of lines: r = a + λb, parallel and perpendicular lines, and points on a line
• Complex numbers in Cartesian form: arithmetic, the conjugate, square roots and the Argand plane
• Polar and exponential form: modulus, argument, Euler's formula and the geometry of multiplication
• De Moivre's theorem: induction proof, powers and trigonometric identities
• Quadratics and polynomials over the complex numbers, and the conjugate root theorem
• Geometry of complex arithmetic: vectors, the parallelogram law and rotation by i
• nth roots of unity, nth roots of a complex number, and regions of the Argand plane
• Integration by substitution and rational functions with a quadratic denominator
• Partial fractions and integrating rational functions
• Integration by parts and reduction (recurrence) formulae
• Simple harmonic motion: equations, the defining property and graphs
• Straight-line motion with variable acceleration and resisted motion
• Projectile motion: parametric equations, the Cartesian path and resisted projectiles