Dear first-year students

The preliminary course in mathematics for physics students will take place in the period from

• 16.09. until 04.10.2024

The rooms will be announced here at a later date.

You should bring writing utensils, as well as a calculator that you will use in the practical application of the lecture content.

This preliminary course is recommended for the following degree programs:

• Bachelor Physics
• Applied Science with the subject Physics
• Combinatorial Bachelor with the subject Physics

Wondering what the goals of the prerequisite course are?

Targets

• Repetition of upper secondary school mathematics (GK and LK gymnasiale Oberstufe)
• Alignment of the mathematical knowledge level of students
• Facilitation of the entry into lectures of physics
• Preparation for lectures in mathematics
• Familiarization with the intensity and style of a typical college course
• Efficient, independent solving of simple example problems

If you would like to prepare for the prerequisite course or even for your first college courses, you can use the following prerequisite course content for guidance.

Content of the preliminary course

• Sets and solids
• Basic arithmetic operations
• Complex numbers
• Real functions and their graphs
• Limits
• Real equations and systems of equations
• Differentiation
• Discussion of curves
• Integration
• Linear Algebra
• Proof methods
• (probabilities and probability densities)