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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

308690 (v.2) Computational Mathematics 202

Note

Tutition 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: 4.0
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 311828 (v.1) Scientific Computing 201 or any previous version
OR
4515 (v.5) Scientific Computing 201 or any previous version
Syllabus: Numerical methods for initial-value problems and multi-step methods. Systems of ordinary differential equations. Two-point boundary value problems, finite difference and shooting methods. Vector and matrix norms, spectral radius, series of matrices and convergence. Iterative methods for large-scale linear systems of equations, Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel and SOR methods, convergence and error bounds. Nonlinear systems of equations and Newton's Method. Introduction to Partial Differential Equations and second-order finite difference methods. Approximation Theory - weighted least squares approximation, orthogonal polynomials.
Field of Education: 010101 Mathematics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley 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