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Textbook Questions
Chapter 3 - Logarithms:
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TSR Revision
How TSR revised for this exam in June 2005 and how TSR reacted to the paper. TSR also revised for the paper in January 2006.
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Textbook
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Learning Objective and Topics
The contents and objectives for the Core 2 module does vary slightly from exam board to exam board. Below is a list of most of the topics covered in Core 2 modules. Not every topic will in all exam boards core 2 and some small topics may be missing - see Core 1, 3 or 4 pages for these other topics.
Algebra and functions
Pupils should be able to:
- know an understand exponential functions
- sketch the graphs of exponential functions
- know and understand the laws of logarithms
- use logs to solve equations of the form ax = b
Topic list:
- exponential functions and their graphs
- logarithms and Laws of Logarithms
- solving equations of the form ax = b
Sequences and Series
Pupils should be able to:
- understand and recognise the different ways of describing a sequence and the different notation used
- understand series notation
- recognise arithmetic and geometric progressions and work out the sum of their series
- discover if an infinite term geometric progression is finite or infinite and calculate the value if it is finite
- understand and use the binomial expansion
Topic list:
- sequences and sequence notation
- recurrence relations
- arithmetic progressions
- geometric progressions
- common ratios
- series notation
- arithmetic series
- geometric series (including the sum to infinity formula)
- factorials and nCr notation
- the Binomial expansion
Trigonometry
Pupils should be able to:
- state the exact values of sine, cosine and tangent for certain values
- sketch and know the properties of sine, cosine and tangent functions
- know the sine and cosine rules and use them to solve triangles
- know an use the formula for the area of a triangle
- understand the radian measure for angles and us it to calculate arc length and sector areas
- solve trigonometric equations (in degrees and radians) for specified intervals
Topic list:
- sine, cosine and tangent of special angles
- graphs of the sine, cosine and tangent functions
- transformation of trigonometric functions
- the sine rule
- the cosine rule
- formula for the area of triangle (using sine)
- radians
- arc length and area of sectors via radian measure
- solving trigonometric functions in degrees
- solving trigonometric functions in radian
- trigonometric identities
- integration, indefinite integrals and constants of integration
Differentiation and Integration
Pupils should be able to:
- differentiate a larger number of functions
- find the indefinite integral of a larger number of functions
- evaluate definite integrals
- find the area under a curve
- use and understand the trapezium rule
Topic list:
- differentiation and the derivative (gradient function)
- integration, indefinite integrals and constants of integration
- definite integration and limits of integration
- finding the area under a curve
- The trapezium rule – a numerical integration technique
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