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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

307536 (v.4) Engineering Mathematics 120

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
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Anti Requisite(s): 307535 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 110 or any previous version
Syllabus: Arithmetic and Algebra. Equations of lines. Functions and their graphs. Inverse functions. Limits of functions. Trigonometric ratios and applications. Sine and cosine rules. Radian measure. Circular functions. Symmetry and periodicity of functions. Trigonometric identities and applications. Polar coordinates. The derivative. Tangent and normal lines. Differentiation rules. Derivatives of trigonometric functions. Chain rule. Implicit differentiation. Differentials, linear and quadratic approximations. Taylor and Maclaurin Series. Curve sketching techniques. Optimisation. Roots of equations: bisection method, Newton's method. Definite and Indefinite integrals. Integration by substitution. Logarithmic and exponential functions with applications. L'Hopital's Rule. Areas in the plane. Improper integrals. 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 polynominals. Matrix algebra, identity and inverse. Elementary Row Operations. Row echelon matrix. Solution of systems of equations via Gaussian Elimination. Rank of a matrix. Homogeneous linear systems. Determinants. Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors.
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.
Field of Education: 010101 Mathematics
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Summer School Y        
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2012 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Miri Sarawak 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