MA1003:03
Mathematical Techniques
Townsville, Cairns
Prerequisites: Senior Maths B (or equivalent)
Inadmissable Subject Combination: MA1002
39 lectures, 26 hours practicals. Second semester (Townsville and Cairns campus); first semester flexible delivery.
MA1000 is a required corequisite subject.
Derivatives of parametric functions and inverse functions; inverse trigonometric functions; hyperbolic functions; differentials; Newton’s method; induction; convergence with simple test criteria; power series; complex numbers; numerical integration; basic integration techniques; separable and linear first order differential equations; second order differential equations with constant coefficients; matrix algebra; systems of linear equations; matrix inversion; determinants.
Assessment by coursework (tests and assignments) (30%); a three-hour examination (70%).
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