MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Computing & Information Technology Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

MAT1050

Mathematical methods

P Norton

6 points + Four 1-hour lectures per week and one 1-hour tutorial + First, second, summer semester - Clayton, Caulfield + First semester - Peninsula + Prerequisites: At levels 3 and 4, VCE Mathematical Methods + Prohibitions: CSC1080, GAS1611, GAS1613, MAT1010, MAT1420, MAT1430, MAT1711, MAT1722, MAT1910

Objectives On completion of this subject students should have improved skills in dealing with functions and learnt of new functions; have developed and extended their skills in calculations involving derivatives, integrals, series, vectors and complex numbers, and applying these concepts and techniques to various problems; and be acquainted with computer algebra and its use in calculus.

Synopsis Functions, limits and continuity. Derivatives and applications. Integration, applications and techniques. Vector algebra and geometry; straight lines and planes. Complex numbers. Taylor series; series convergence. An introduction to computer algebra using DERIVE.

Assessment Examinations (3 hours): 85% + Assignments (6): 15%

Prescribed texts

Stewart J Calculus 3rd edn, Brooks-Cole, 1994

Recommended texts

Arianrhod R J and Norton P N An introduction to using the DERIVE package Monash U, 1995

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