Edexcel FP2 Further Pure Maths
Inequalities
- Solving inequalities analytically
- Solving inequalities by graphical methods
Series
- Method of differences to sum a simple finite series
Further complex numbers
- Modulus-argument form
- Euler's relation
- Multiplying and dividing two complex numbers
- De Moivre's theorem
- De Moivre's theorem applied to trigonometric identities
- De Moivre's theorem to find the nth roots of a complex number
- Using complex numbers to represent a locus of a set of points in an Argand diagram
- Using complex numbers to represent regions on an Argand diagram
- Transformations of the complex plane
First order differential equations
- separating the variables and sketching families of curves
- Exact equations where one side is the exact derivative of a product
- Solving equations of the form dy/dx + Py = Q
- Using substitution to reduce a differential equation to a known form
Second order differential equations
- Solving equations of the form ad²y/dx² + bdy/dx + cy = 0 where b² > 4ac
- Solving equations of the form ad²y/dx² + bdy/dx + cy = 0 where b² = 4ac
- Solving equations of the form ad²y/dx² + bdy/dx + cy = 0 where b² < 4ac
- Solving equations of the form ad²y/dx² + bdy/dx + cy = f(x)
- Using boundary conditions to solve differential equations
- Using substitution to reduce a differential equation to a known form
Maclaurin and Taylor series
- Finding and using higher derivatives of functions
- Maclaurin's expansion
- Taylor's expansion
- Solution to differential equations using Taylors series
Polar coordinates
- Polar and Cartesian coordinates
- Polar and Cartesian equations of curves
- Sketching polar equations
- Area bounded by a polar curve
- Finding equations of tangents parallel and perpendicular to the initial line