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Mathematics 1B - ZPEM1302
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Campus: University College Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: ZPEM1301
 
 
Equivalent: AMAT1102
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 5 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

This course covers material from ordinary differential equations, statistics and multi-variable calculus. These are important tools when mathematics is applied to situations in science and engineering. Students will study first-order and second order ODEs analytically, graphically and numerically. Statistics concerns the use of data to obtain information about real-life situations and problems. There are various statistical tools that help extract useful information from data. Topics covered are: measures of location, variability in data, histograms and distributions of discrete and continuous variables. The ideas and concepts of calculus of functions with a single variable are generalised to functions with two or more variables. Topics include: surfaces in three dimensions, partial derivatives, gradient vector, directional derivative and multi-variable optimisation.

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