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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.

307537 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 130

Area: Faculty of Science and Engineering
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: 3 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Anti Requisite(s): 307538 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 140 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 307535 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 110 or any previous version
Syllabus: Geometric vectors; vector operations; Scalar products; Orthogonal vectors and projections; Cross product; Equations of lines; distance between a point and a line and between lines; Equations of planes; Distance from a point to a plane; Matrix algebra, identity and inverse; Elementary Row Operations; Row echelon matrix; Solution of systems of n linear equations in n unknowns via Gaussian Elimination. Rank of a matrix; solution of systems of m linear equations; Homogeneous linear systems; Determinants; Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors; Complex numbers: Cartesian and polar forms, modulus, argument and principal value; Regions of the complex plane; Exponential form; De Moivre's Theorem, root extraction and roots of polynomials; Functions of two and three variables; Vector Valued Functions; Partial derivatives; Total differential and approximations; 1st order Ordinary Differential Equations - Linear & Separable; direction fields; Applications; Homogeneous 2nd order linear ODEs with constant coefficients; Method of undetermined coefficients; Method of variation of parameters; Applications; Numerical solutions of 1st order ODEs: Euler, Improved Euler and Runge-Kutta Methods.
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.
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 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