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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

314204 (v.1) Mathematics 290

Note

Tuition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Lecture: 3 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 307537 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 130 or any previous version
OR
307538 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 140 or any previous version
Syllabus: Sequences and series leading to Taylor’s series; Multidimensional analysis 2-D to n-D functions. Curve, plane and volume parameterisation. Complex functions. Graphing functions; 2-D, 3-D, n-D calculus. Line integrals. Surface integrals. Volume integrals. Iterated integrals; Probability theory. Sample space, events and the definition of probability. Joint and conditional probabilities, Bayes’ theorem, independent events and Bernoulli trials. Discrete and continues random variables, cumulative distribution functions, probability mass functions, probability density functions. Expectations, variances, functions of random variables. Engineering applications and probability theory.
Field of Education: 010101 Mathematics
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 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