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 421-277 Computer Applications and Numerical Analysis

Credit Points

7.1

Coordinator

Dr G. A. Moore

Semester

1

Contact

12 hours of lectures, 24 hours of practice classes

Subject Description

Students completing this unit will have acquired skills in the use and manipulation of spreadsheet software for engineering problem solving.

Topics covered include; basic operating system commands, review of use of word processors for engineering report writing, spreadsheets: understanding errors, graphs, function and command macros, tables, solving implicit equations, databases, interpolation, differentiation, integration, differential equations.

Assessment

One 1.5 hour examination performed in computer laboratory; two assignments based on the practical work of approximately 3000 words (or equivalent)

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