VCF1091

Mathematics (6 points)

(PHA)

Leader: Dr William Thiel

Offered:
Parkville Full year 2003 (Day)
Parkville Full year 2004 (Day)

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: Mid-year examination (June) (1.5 hours): 20% + End-of-year examination (2 hours): 80%