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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.

MATH1008 (v.1) Calculus and Linear Algebra

Area: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
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 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 305640 (v.1) Mathematics 136 or any previous version
Anti Requisite(s): 10926 (v.5) Mathematics 103 or any previous version
AND
311054 (v.1) Mathematics 146 or any previous version
AND
7062 (v.6) Mathematics 101 or any previous version
AND
7492 (v.5) Mathematics 104 or any previous version
AND
MATH1004 (v.1) Mathematics 1 or any previous version
AND
MATH1009 (v.1) Calculus and Linear Algebra for Spatial Science or any previous version
AND
MATH1010 (v.1) Advanced Mathematics or any previous version
AND
MATH1011 (v.1) Mathematics 2 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: Revision of basic differentiation, product, quotient and chain rules, implicit differentiation and related rates, Optimization and differential approximations, curve sketching, calculus with exponential functions and logs, techniques of integration and areas. Volumes of revolution. Vectors: arithmetic, lengths and angles and basic applications. Matrices: elementary matrix algebra, inverse of a 2X2 and solution of a 3X3 system of equations using row reduction. This unit is designed for those student that have passed WACE Mathematics 3A/3B or equivalent. Students who have passed WACE Mathematics 2C/2D should enrol in MATH1007 Pre and Introductory Calculus. Those that have passed WACE Mathematics 3C/3D should enrol in MATH1004 Mathematics 1 and those who have passed WACE Mathematics: Specialist 3C/3D with a mark of >65% should enrol in MATH1010 Advanced Mathematics.
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 Summer School Y        
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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