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How much Maths does Chemistry at degree level have in it

i did AS Maths and found it fairly ok but i'm worried that won't be enough to prepare for the maths required for chemistry at degree level?

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Original post by mbrown89

i did AS Maths and found it fairly ok but i'm worried that won't be enough to prepare for the maths required for chemistry at degree level?

I'll send you a file of a question which came up on one of my examinations. This is for chemistry honours year.

You need the following maths to get through a chemistry degree comfortably:

Calculus: Rates of change, tangents and differentiation. Differentiating other functions as well as function of functions (the chain rule). The product rule and quotient rule. Maxima and Minima on graphs; second differentials. Partial differentiation and polar coordinates (quite hard!). Integration, separating variables and integration with limits, integration by parts, area and volume determination integrals and matrix and vector calculus.

The things you have done in A-level was arithmetic.

If you can handle this and pass a chemistry degree you can pretty much do any other degree (intellectually that is).