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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.

MATH1001 (v.1) Engineering Mathematics Specialist 2

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
Computer Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Equivalent(s): 307537 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 130 or any previous version
Anti Requisite(s): 307538 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 140 or any previous version
AND
MATH1003 (v.1) Engineering Mathematics 2 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 307535 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 110 or any previous version
OR
MATH1000 (v.1) Engineering Mathematics Specialist 1 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: 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.
Further Information: MATH1001 Engineering Mathematics Specialist 2 is designed for students that have successfully completed MATH1000 Engineering Mathematics Specialist 1 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 2 Y        

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

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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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