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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

MATH1004 (v.1) Mathematics 1

Area: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Workshop: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 10926 (v.5) Mathematics 103 or any previous version
Anti Requisite(s): 7062 (v.6) Mathematics 101 or any previous version
AND
MATH1010 (v.1) Advanced Mathematics or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: This unit will consider problems arising from science, engineering and business related fields. Students will learn the necessary skills to solve such problems through the application of commonly occurring simple mathematical functions and techniques of differentiation, integration, linear algebra as well as complex analysis. The topics covered include functions and their graphs; Limits and Continuity; Differentiation and Integration; Transcendental functions; Vectors; matrices; Systems of Linear Equations and Solution Methods; Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors; Complex numbers. This unit is designed for those students who have passed WACE Mathematics 3C/3D or equivalent. Those students who have passed WACE Mathematics: Specialist 3C/3D with a mark of >65% should enrol in Advanced Mathematics. Those who have passed WACE Mathematics 3A/3B should enrol in Calculus and Linear Algebra and those that have passed WACE Mathematics 2C/2D should enrol in Pre and Introductory Calculus.
Further Information: Students must have completed Mathematics 3C/3D or Mathematics: Specialist 3C/3D or equivalent.
Field of Education: 010101 Mathematics
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External


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