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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.

MATH3000 (v.1) Mathematical Methods

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: 3 x 1 Hours Weekly
Computer Laboratory: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 10098 (v.2) Mathematical Methods 301 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 8127 (v.6) Advanced Calculus 201 or any previous version
OR
8648 (v.3) Mathematical Methods 201 or any previous version
OR
MATH2009 (v.1) Advanced Calculus
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: Complex analysis: functions of a complex variable, analytic functions, Cauchy's Theorem and Cauchy's Integral Theorem, Taylor and Laurent series, and the Residue Theorem. The Laplace transform and inverse Laplace transform: operational properties, use in solving differential equations, convolution, and solution of some integrodifferential equations. Sturm-Liouville systems: orthogonal function (generalised Fourier series) expansions, special functions including Bessel and modified Bessel functions, Legendre polynomials, and the Green's function method.
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 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


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