Courses Handbook 2010

307725 (v.2) Geophysical Data Analysis 102


Area: Department of Exploration Geophysics
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
** 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. **
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 2 x 2 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork: 2 x 1 Days Yearly
Syllabus: Overview of digital computers. Computer languages. Data representations in a computer, data types. Program structures, subroutines, local and global variables. Boolean operation and the basis of numerical calculations in binary notation. Number systems and conversion of number bases. Operating systems and high performance computing. Basic methods of numerical analysis and solutions of equations. Structured programming and elementary computer graphics. Representing data in graphical form.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 010705 Geophysics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*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
2010 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

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