MA2607 COURSE CONTENT AND LECTURE NOTES
Applied Mathematics (MA2607)
The course will cover three areas
The first part of the course is based on notes by Prof. P. Daniels.
The notes for the second and third parts of the course are
Below are some additional short notes on plane polar unit vectors and their derivatives, and on energy in the gravitational problem
Plane Polar unit vectors and their derivatives
Energy formula for Gravitational system
COURSE
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
The course runs over 11 weeks; week 6 is reading week and there are no lectures then. Your final grade for the course will come from a weighted average of your exam (80% weight) and course work (20% weight). You need to get at least 40% on the combined coursework and exam mark to pass the course.
COURSEWORK
COMPONENT of ASSESSMENT
The coursework component of your mark will be based on four short class tests. These will take place between 1200 and 1210 on a Wednesday in the week indicated by T in the table below. Each test will be marked out of 5 marks, and will be based on material covered in the course up to that point.
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Lecture Dates |
28/9 |
5/10 |
12/10 |
19/10 |
26/10 |
2/11 |
9/11 |
16/11 |
23/11 |
30/11 |
7/12 |
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Week |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
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Assessment |
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T |
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T |
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T |
T |
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EXAM
COMPONENT of ASSESSMENT
The exam will be two hours long. It will have four questions, each 20 marks, of which you have to answer 3. The exam will constitute 80% of your mark.
PROBLEM SHEETS
PAST EXAM PAPERS AND SOLUTIONS
Two past exam papers are available on the Moodle page for
this course.