VCP1091

Mathematics

(PHA)

Dr William Thiel

44 lectures, 18 tutorials and 25 hours of assignment work

Synopsis: Computer studies. General introduction. Networking. The Internet. Personal computers. File maintenance. Monash standard software. Calculus Differentiation. Logarithmic plots. Integration methods. First-order rate processes. Zero, second and third-order reaction. Triangular charts. Partial differentiation. Integration. Differential equations. Statistics. Presentation of sample data. Measures of central tendency and dispersion. Probability distributions. Sampling. Estimation. Hypothesis testing. Fitting a line. Regression theory. Correlation. Contingency tables.

Assessment: Progress examination (May) (1 hour): 10% + End-of-year examination (2 hours): 90%