• This section has been greatly enhanced, and tailored to meet our engineering requirements.
• The section outlined here is not intended to teach the elements of mathematics, but it is designed to be a quick reference guide to support the engineer required to use techniques that may not have been used recently.
• For those planning to write the first ABET Fundamentals of Engineering exam, the following topics are commonly on the exam.
- straight line equations - slop and perpendicular
- conics, circles, ellipses, etc.
- matrices, determinants, adjoint, inverse, cofactors, multiplication
- limits, L’Hospital’s rule, small angle approximation
- complex numbers, polar form, conjugate, addition of polar forms
- maxima, minima and inflection points
- first order differential equations - guessing and separation
- second order differential equation - linear, homogeneous, non-homogeneous, second order
- triangles, sine, cosine, etc.
- integration - by parts and separation
- solving equations using inverse matrices, Cramer’s rule, substitution
- dot and cross products, areas of parallelograms, angles and triple product
- divergence and curl - solenoidal and conservative fields
- integration using Laplace transforms
- probability - permutations and combinations
- mean, standard deviation, mode, etc.
- basic coordinate transformations - cartesian, cylindrical, spherical
- derivative - basics, natural log, small angles approx., chain rule, partial fractions
• A good place to start a short list of mathematical relationships is with greek letters
• The constants listed are amount some of the main ones, other values can be derived through calculation using modern calculators or computers. The values are typically given with more than 15 places of accuracy so that they can be used for double precision calculations.
• These operations are generally universal, and are described in sufficient detail for our use.
