GAS1641

Engineering mathematics 1A

(SCI)

Dr John Arkinstall

4 points + First semester + 3 hours lectures and 1-hour tutorial per week + Distance + Prerequisites: an appropriate Year 12 mathematics or MAT1049 + Prohibitions: not for credit with MAT1055, MAT1049

Synopsis: Topics covered include the following. Calculus: functions; review of differentiation with applications including approximations, the finding of local extreme points, rate problems and curve sketching; definite integration with application to areas, volumes and centres of mass; systematic indefinite integration; elementary differential equations (as far as first order separable) with applications. Linear algebra; algebra of matrices; homogeneous linear transformations; determinants; matrix inversion; vectors in three-dimensional space - scalar and vector products and applications in geometry and statics and dynamics.

Assessment: Class tests and assignments: 40% + Examination (3 hours): 60%