1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

LCT100 Science, Technology and Society
4 hours per week Lilydale Prerequistite: nil Assessment:
continuous
A stage 1 core subject in the Bachelor of Business and
Bachelor of Social Science
Objectives
To introduce siudents to fundamental concepts about
science, scientific and technological change in the context of
our emerging electronic society. Applications of
communications technology by students will complement
the conceptual framework of the subject.
Content
Science, and scientific method;
science and technology in contemporary economies;
technological innovation and transfer;
historical modes of communication;
changing modes of communication: electronic society?
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Dower bases: whose information revolution?
functional and institutional convergence: media,
information technology and telecommunications;
forces for globalisation;
V,
-. ", superhighways or superhypeways?
cultural impact of new communications technologies;
t7 changing communication process: VIPs- visual,
intelligent, personal;
a
" construction of society and new modes of
communication: eg. Internet,virtual reality.
threats: misuse of information, privacy, inequality.
Recommended reading
Dunbar, R., The Trouble witb Science, Faber and Faber, 1995
Green, L. and Guiney, R. (eds) Framing Technology, Allen &
Unwin, 1994
Haywood, P. and Woollen, T. 'Future Visions: New Technologies
of the Screen'. 21C Periodical) BFI Publishinx 1993
Thwaites, ~.,'~avis, L., and Mules, W., TO& For Cultural Studies,
Macmillan, 1994
Wolport, L., The Unnatural Nature ofScience,I Faber anf Faber,
1992
LMSlOO Mathematics
25 credit points 5 hours per week Lilydale Prerequisite:
nil Assessment: test, examination and assignments
A first stage subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Management Science and Computing).
Objectives
To provide students with mathematical knowledge and
skills reauired for concurrent and later studies.
To develop students mathematical knowledge and skills.
To reinforce and develop mathematical communication
skills and problem solving skills.
To demonstrate where mathematics can be applied to
practical situations.
Content
Introduction to numerical methods; errors; solution of
equations.
Coordinate geometry in Canesian coordinates.
Standard functions and their graphs; finite and infinite
limits; indeterminate forms.
Differentiation and its applications; optimisation;
approximation; Taylor polynomials.
Integration and its applications; numerical integration;
improper integrals.
Matrices and determinants; systems of linear equations.
Polar co-ordinates.
Complex numbers.
Ordinary differential equations of first and second order;
difference equations.
Vectors in two- and three-dimensional space.
Three-dimensional space; quadric surfaces; lines and planes;
calculus of curves and surfaces.
Functions of many variables: graphs; partial differentiation;
approximations; optimisation. Partial differential equations.
Spaces of vectors and linear equations; rank, nullspace and
range of a matrix.
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors; diagonalization of simple
matrices; applications.
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Infinite sequences; infinite series; tests for convergence.
Power series; Taylor and Maclaurin series.
Recommended reading
Prescribed text: to be advised
Prescribed package: Maple V5.
Each student is required to have the use of a laptop computer in
class.
LMSI 11 Operations Research: An
Introduction to Problem Solving
12.5 credit points 3 hours per week Lilydale/Mooroolbark
Prerequisite: nil Assessment: examination and
assignments
A first stage subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Management Science and Computing).
0 b jectives
To introduce students to the field of Operations
Research.
To introduce students to the types of mathematical
models used in Operations Research.
To help students to develop an approach to problem
solving.
Content
Development of operations research; inter-disciplinary team;
methodology; operations research literature; operations