Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology

Unit Outline

MTH20014
Mathematics 3B
Semester 1 2019

Please read this Unit Outline carefully. It includes:

PART A Unit summary
PART B Your Unit in more detail
PART C Further information
PART A: Unit Summary

Unit Code(s) MTH20014

Unit Title Mathematics 3B
Duration One semester
Total Contact Hours 60 hours
Requisites:

Both MTH10012 Calculus and Applications and MTH10013 Linear

Algebra and Applications
Or
Pre-requisites
MTH10007 Engineering Mathematics 2
or
MTH10003 Engineering Mathematics 2 Product Design
Co-requisites Nil
Concurrent pre-requisites Nil
Anti-requisites Nil
Assumed knowledge
Credit Points 12.5
Campus/Location Hawthorn
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Assessment Summary Continuous: 40-50% | Examination 50-60%

Aims
This unit of study aims to provide students with mathematical knowledge and skills needed to support
their concurrent and subsequent science and engineering studies.

Unit Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete this Unit should be able to:

1. Calculate the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of 2x2 and 3x3 matrices (K2, S1).
2. Interpret the quadratic form and find its canonical form (K2, S1).
3. Use the Cayley-Hamilton theorem to simplify matrix powers (K2, S1).
4. Apply Vector Calculus to analyse and model processes that arise in scientific and
engineering applications (K2, S1).
5. Apply Green’s theorem, Ostrogradsky-Gauss’ divergence theorem and Stokes’ theorem
(K2, S1).
6. Perform operations with complex numbers, understand and use the concepts of analyticity
and function singularities in computing contour integrals (K2, S1).

Key Generic Skills

You will be provided with feedback on your progress in attaining the following generic skills:

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 • Analysis Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Ability to work independently

Content
• Matrix Analysis: eigenvalue problems, reduction to canonical form, matrix operations, science
and engineering applications.
• Vector Calculus: derivatives of a scalar and vector-valued functions; differential vector
operators; line, surface and volume integrals; Green’s, Ostrogradsky-Gauss’ and Stokes’
theorems with applications.
• Functions of a complex variable: review of complex numbers, analytical functions,
differentiation of function of a complex variable, complex series, singularities, zeros and
residues, contour integration, science and engineering applications.

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PART B: Your Unit in more detail
Unit Improvements
Feedback provided by previous students through the Student Survey has resulted in
improvements that have been made to this unit. Recent improvements include: the unit is
offered for the first time, no feedback history is available.

Unit Teaching Staff

Name Role Room Phone Email Consultation Times

Prof Will Phillips Unit Convenor, EN710b 9214 8286 wphillips@ By appointment
Lecturer
Dr Nathan Clisby Lecturer EN710a 9214 8020 nclisby@ To be advised
Dr Samsuzzoha Tutor EN709a 9214-3735 msamsuzzoha@swin.edu
To be advised
.au

Dr Bushra Hasan Tutor AD223 9214-2837 bhasan@ To be advised

Dr Pinkee Dey Tutor To be advised

Learning and Teaching Structure

Activity Total Hours Hours per Week Teaching Period Weeks

Lectures 48 hours 4 hours Weeks 1 to 12

Tutorials 12 hours 1 hour Weeks 1 to 12

Week by Week Schedule

Minor adjustments to the following may be made to suit the needs of pace and assessment.

Week Week Beginning Teaching and Learning Activity Student Task or Assessment

§ Lectures on Matrix Analysis:

Work on all problems in Tutorial Sheet
1 Mar 4 Sections 1.1 and 1.2
1
Revision tutorial on prerequisite material

2 § Lectures on Matrix Analysis: § Work on all problems in Tutorial Sheet 2

Mar 11 Section 1.3, 1.4, 1.5.1
Tutorial on Week 1 lecture material.
3 § Lecture on Matrix Analysis: Section
Mar 19 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.6.1 and 1.6.2
Tutorial on Week 2 lecture material
4 § Lecture on Matrix Analysis:
Mar 26 Sections 1.6.3 and 1.7
Tutorial on Week 3 lecture material
5 §
§ Lectures on Vector Calculus:
Apr 1 Sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3
Work on all problems in Tutorial Sheet 3
§ Work on all problems in Tutorial Sheet 4
Prepare for test on Matrix Analysis to be
held in Week 5.
Test on Matrix Analysis will be held in
your normal tutorial class.
Work on all problems in Tutorial Sheet 5
independently (refer to the Lecture Notes for
worked out examples)

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 6 § Lectures on Vector Calculus:
Apr 8 Sections 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 3.1.1 Work on all problems in Tutorial Sheet 6
Tutorial on Week 5 lecture material
7 § Lectures on Vector Calculus: § Work on all problems from Tutorial
Apr 15 / Sections 3.1.2-3.1.6,3.2.1 and 3.2.2 Sheet 7
Apr 22 Tutorial on Week 6 lecture material

8 § Lectures on Vector Calculus:

Apr 29 Section 3.2.3-3.2.5 Work on all problems from Tutorial Sheet 8
Tutorial on Week 7 lecture material
9 § Lectures on Vector Calculus: § Work on all problems from Tutorial
Sections 3.2.6 and 3.2.7 Sheet 9
May 6 Lectures on Complex Analysis: Sections Prepare for the test on Vector Calculus to be
4.1.1-4.1.3 held in Week 10
10 § Test on Vector Calculus will be held in
§ Lectures on Complex Analysis: your normal tutorial class
May 13 Sections 4.1.4-4.2 Work on all problems in Tutorial Sheet 10
Tutorial on Week 9 lecture material independently (refer to the Lecture Notes for
worked out examples)
11 § Lectures on Complex Analysis:
§ Work on all problems in Tutorial Sheet
Section 4.3
May 20 11
§ Tutorial on Week 10 lecture material
Continue preparing for the Final Examination

12 § Lectures on Complex Analysis: § Work on all problems in Tutorial Sheet

May 27 Section 4.4. 12
Tutorial on Week 11 lecture material Continue preparing for the Final Examination

Assessment
a) Assessment Overview

Unit Learning
Individual or Outcomes that this Assessment Due
Tasks and Details Weighting
Group assessment task Date
relates to
1. Test 1 Individual 20% 1, 2, 3 Week 5
2. Test 2 Individual 20% 4, 5 Week 9
3. Examination Individual 60% 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Formal Exam Period

b) Minimum requirements to pass this Unit

To pass this unit, you must:
• achieve an overall mark for the unit of 50% or more, and
• achieve at least 40% in the final exam
Students who do not achieve at least 40% for the final exam will receive a maximum of
44% as the total mark for the unit.

c) Examinations
If the unit you are enrolled in has an official examination, you will be expected to be
available for the entire examination period including any Special Exam period.
• Students will be allowed to prepare and bring with them to the exam 1 (one) double-
sided A4 sheet of handwritten notes. No printed or photocopied materials will be
allowed.

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 • The only calculator allowed in the exam is the Texas Instrument 30XB MultiView. No
spare calculators or batteries will be available.
• Students who attend, but not complete the final examination will be granted the Special
Consideration Exam only if they score at least 40% in the exam that they attended.
• Students who apply for a Special Consideration for the final examination will be
approved only if they achieve 40% on both mid-semester tests.
• Any Special Consideration tests granted in this unit may be assessed in ORAL rather
than WRITTEN form.
d) Test Requirements

• All tests are 50 minutes in duration. Students are allowed to prepare and bring 1 (one)
double-sided A4 sheet of handwritten notes to each test. The note sheets must be
submitted along with the test papers. No printed or photocopied materials will be
allowed.

• While not essential, students will be allowed to use Texas Instruments 30XB MultiView
calculator in the tests. This is the only calculator that students are allowed to bring to
the test. No spare calculators or batteries will be available.

• The tests will be held during each student’s normal tutorials. All students must sit
the tests with the tutorial group they are officially registered with unless a prior
permission to do otherwise has been given by email by the Convenor. Such
permission will only be granted in compelling circumstances. Name checks will be run
before each test. Students whose names do not appear on the particular group list and
who do not have a written Convener’s permission will not be allowed to sit the test with
a different group.
• Any changes or additional information regarding tests will be posted on the subject’s
online site and/or emailed to students’ official Swinburne email addresses, which will
be deemed to be a sufficient notice.
• Students will be allowed to view their marked test papers during their normal tutorials
in the week immediately following the test. Any issues related to marking and individual
raw marks have to be discussed with the tutor. Students must return the viewed papers
to the tutor. Failure to do so will lead to the test mark recorded as zero that will be used
in computing the student’s final score for the subject. Once the test papers are
collected after they are viewed by students the marks will be posted online. Students
should report any discrepancies between the posted marks and marks recorded on the
viewed paper to the convenor as soon as possible.
e) Requests to sit tests at a later or alternative date

• Any student who missed a class test (which includes failing to sit in their usual tutorial)
must notify the Convener of the unit of study as soon as possible, and no later than
three days after the scheduled date of the test. In the absence of any notification or
application to sit the test at a later time/date, it will be assumed that there are no
grounds for granting such a permission and zero mark will be recorded for the test.

• In order to maintain equity with other students, applications to sit a test at another time
will only be granted on the basis of illness, misadventure or other extraordinary
circumstance reasonably beyond the student’s control. Students may be required to
produce medical or other documentary evidence in support of their application to sit a

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 test at a later time. Students may be asked to submit a formal Special Consideration
request via standard channels.

• Applications to a Unit Convener for a permission to sit a test at a later time/date should
be made via email and/or writing at the earliest opportunity (including before the date
of the test, if known). Relevant supporting evidence (e.g. medical certificate) should be
attached to the application. Students should not assume that their application has been
successful unless they have been notified by email sent to their official Swinburne
address.

• Where a student is permitted to sit a test at a later date, this will be as close as possible
to the originally scheduled time, typically during the week immediately following the
official test week. An alternative written test may be replaced by an oral examination
of the material covered by the test.

f) Groupwork Guidelines
There is no group work in this unit of study
.

Required Textbook(s)
There is no textbook for this unit. However, students are expected to access

MTH20014 Mathematics 3B Lecture Notes, available online from the subject site

Recommended Reading Materials

The Library has a large collection of resource materials. Listed below are some references
that will provide valuable supplementary information to this unit.
E. Kreyszig, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 10th edition, Wiley, 2011.
G. James et al., Advanced Modern Engineering Mathematics, 4th edition, Prentice Hall, 2010.

K.A. Stroud, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 4th edition, Macmillan Press, 2003.

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PART C: FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information on any of the below topics, refer to Swinburne’s

Current Students web page http://www.swinburne.edu.au/student/.

Student Charter
Please familiarise yourself with Swinburne’s Student Charter. The charter describes what students
can reasonably expect from Swinburne in order to enjoy a quality learning experience. As students
contribute to their own learning experience to that of their fellow students, the charter also defines the
University's expectations of students.

Student behaviour and wellbeing

Swinburne has a range of policies and procedures that govern how students are expected to conduct
themselves throughout the course of their relationship with the University. These include policies on
expected standards of behaviour and conduct which cover interaction with fellow students, staff and
the wider University community, in addition to following the health and safety requirements in the
course of their studies and whilst using University facilities.
All students are expected to familiarise themselves with University regulations, policies and
procedures and have an obligation to abide by the expected guidelines. Any student found to be in
breach may be subject to relevant disciplinary processes. Some examples of relevant expected
behaviours are:
• Not engaging in student misconduct
• Ensuring compliance with the University’s Anti-Discrimination, Bullying and Violence and
Sexual Harassment requirements
• Complying with all Swinburne occupational health and safety requirements, including
following emergency and evacuation procedures and following instructions given by
staff/wardens or emergency response.
In teaching areas, it is expected that students conduct themselves in a manner that is professional
and not disruptive to others. In all Swinburne laboratories, there are specific safety procedures which
must be followed, such as wearing appropriate footwear and safety equipment, not acting in a manner
which is dangerous or disruptive (e.g. playing computer games), and not bringing in food or drink.

Canvas
You should regularly access the Swinburne learning management system, Canvas, which is available
via the Current Students webpage or https://swinburne.instructure.com/ Canvas is updated regularly
with important unit information and communications.

Communication
All communication will be via your Swinburne email address. If you access your email through a
provider other than Swinburne, then it is your responsibility to ensure that your Swinburne email is
redirected to your private email address.

Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the action or practice of taking and submitting or presenting the thoughts, writings or
other work of someone else as though it is your own work. Plagiarism includes any of the following,
without full and appropriate acknowledgment to the original source(s):
• The use of the whole or part of a computer program written by another person;
• the use, in essays or other assessable work, of the whole or part of a written work from any
source including but not limited to a book, journal, newspaper article, set of lecture notes,
current or past student’s work, any other person’s work, a website or database;

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 • The paraphrasing of another’s work;
• The use of musical composition, audio, visual, graphic and photographic models,
• The use of realia that is objects, artefacts, costumes, models and the like.
• Plagiarism includes the submission of assessments that have been developed by another
person or service through contract, tender or online writing services.
• Plagiarism also includes the preparation or production and submission or presentation of
assignments or other work in conjunction with another person or other people when that work
should be your own independent work. This remains plagiarism whether or not it is with the
knowledge or consent of the other person or people. It should be noted that Swinburne
encourages its students to talk to staff, fellow students and other people who may be able to
contribute to a student’s academic work but that where independent assignment is required,
submitted or presented work must be the student’s own.
Enabling plagiarism contributes to plagiarism and therefore will be treated as a form of plagiarism by
the University. Enabling plagiarism means allowing or otherwise assisting another student to copy or
otherwise plagiarise work by, for example, allowing access to a draft or completed assignment or
other work.
Swinburne University use the Turnitin system that helps check for improper citations or potential
plagiarism in assignments submitted electronically via Canvas. Your Unit Convenor will provide further
details.
The penalties for plagiarism can be severe, ranging from a zero grade for an assessment task through
to expulsion from the unit and, in the extreme, exclusion from Swinburne. Consequently, you need to
avoid plagiarism by providing a reference whenever you include information from other sources in
your work.

Student support
You should talk to your Unit Convenor or Student Services for information on academic support
services available for Swinburne students.

Special consideration
If your studies have been adversely affected due to serious and unavoidable circumstances outside of
your control (e.g. severe illness or unavoidable obligation), you may be able to apply for special
consideration (SPC).
Applications for Special Consideration will be submitted via the SPC online tool normally no later than
5.00pm on the third working day after the submission/sitting date for the relevant assessment
component.

Accessibility needs
Sometimes students with a disability, a mental health or medical condition or significant carer
responsibilities require reasonable adjustments to enable full access to and participation in education.
Your needs can be addressed by Swinburne's AccessAbility Services by negotiating and distributing
an 'Education Access Plan'. The plan makes recommendations to university teaching and
examination staff. You must notify AccessAbility Services of your disability or condition within one
week after the commencement of your unit to allow the University to make reasonable adjustments.

Review of marks
An independent marker reviews all fail grades for major assessment tasks. In addition, a review of
assessment is undertaken if your final result is between 45 and 49 or within 2 marks of any grade
threshold.
If you are not satisfied with the result of an assessment, you can ask the Unit Convenor to review the
result. Your request must be made in writing within 10 working days of receiving the result. The Unit
Convenor will review your result to determine if your result is appropriate.
If you are dissatisfied with the outcomes of the review, you can lodge a formal complaint.

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Feedback, complaints and suggestions
In the first instance, you may discuss any issues with your Unit Convenor. If you are dissatisfied with
the outcome of the discussions with the Unit Convenor or would prefer not to deal with your Unit
Convenor, then you can complete a feedback form.

Advocacy
Should you require assistance with any academic issues, University statutes, regulations, policies and
procedures, you are advised to seek advice from an Independent Advocacy Officer at Swinburne
Student Life (previously Swinburne Student Amenities Association (SSAA).
For an appointment, please call 03 9214 5445 or email advocacy@swin.edu.au
For more information, please see https://www.swinburne.edu.au/current-students/student-services-
support/advocacy/

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