Online Courses Handbook 2003

303148 (v.1) WASM Operations Research 232

Area:	WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	12.5
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	303135 (v.1) WASM Mathematics 131 or any previous version AND 303142 (v.1) WASM Mathematics 132 or any previous version
Review maxima and minima of several variables. Lagrange multipliers. Linear programming - graphical and computer solutions, duality, the transport problem, the classical production problem in economics, shadow prices, the simplex method. Network flows and combinatorics - maximal flow is the minimum cut. Dynamic programming. Critical path and analysis and PERT.