UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE

FACULTY OF SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCI-

ENCES

COURSE OUTLINE: ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS 1.

Lecturer : Mr. T.V. Mupedza

Course title : Engineering Mathematics 1

Course code : MTE 101.

Lecture hours per semester : 75 Hrs

Duration : 1 Semester

Office No. : 216 Old wing

1 Purpose

This course is designed to cover Calculus of single variables and part of Calculus of several variables for
undergraduate engineering students with some background of A-Level calculus. The concentration is on
motivating results and concepts geometrically rather than on providing rigorous proofs. Concepts are
defined carefully and results stated precisely, but illustrated by way of vivid, concrete examples. We seek
to introduce and develop concepts (including complex numbers and the algebra of polynomials) necessary
for a first course in algebra. Our goal is the elementary theory of matrices and determinants, and their
applications to solving systems of linear equations. The course is a pre-requisite for MT2** (Engineering
mathematics 2). It has 25 lectures per week which have a duration of one hour each.
Monday 0800 − 1200, to Friday 0800 − 1200 hrs.

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2 AIM

The aim of this course is to introduce gently the rigour of mathematical analysis and provide a good
background for applied mathematics.

3 Course Content

3.1 Number systems

1. Natural, Rational and Irrational Numbers, [1]

2. Principle of Mathematical Induction, [2]

3. The Real Number System, Inequalities, Solution Sets and Geometrical Representation, [1]

4. Absolute Value, Neighborhoods and Intervals. [1]

3.2 Sequences and series

1. Definitions and Notation, Limits of Sequences and their properties, [2]

2. Monotone Sequences, [1]

3. Convergence or Divergence of infinite Series, [1]

4. Tests for Convergence or Divergence of infinite Series (Direct Comparison Test, Limit Comparison
test, Alternating Series Test, Absolute convergence, N th Root test and Ratio Test) [2]

3.3 Functions, limits of functions of a single variable

1. Definitions and Notation, Types of Functions and their Inverses, [2].

2. Definition of a limit of a function and its application, [1]

3. Left and Right hand Limits, [1]

4. L’ Hospital’s Rule, [1]

5. Continuous Functions, [2]

6. Curve sketching, [1]

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3.4 Differentiation

1. The concept of a derivative, [1]

2. Theorems on Differentiation. [2]

3. Applications of the derivative. The Mean Value Theorem and Rolle’s Theorem, [2]

4. Leibniz Theorem with Applications, [2]

3.5 Integration

1. Indefinite integral and definite integral, [2]

2. Techniques of integration, [2]

3. Reduction Formulas, [2]

4. Improper integrals, [2]

3.6 Functions of two or more variables

1. Limits and continuity, [2]

2. Partial differentiation, [2]

3. The chain rule, [2]

4. The extended chain rule, [1]

5. maxima, Minima and Saddle points, [2]

3.7 Integration of functions of several variables

1. Double integration, [1]

2. Changing the order of integration and changing variables of integration, [3]

3. Triple integrals, [1]

3.8 Basic Concepts of Set Theory

1. Importance of set theory, Notation, Some interesting sets of numbers, Well-defined sets, Specification
of Sets, [1]

2. The empty set (null set), Identity and cardinality, Russell’s Paradox, Inclusion, Axiom of Extension-
ality, [2]

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 3. Power set, Operations on Sets, Difference and Complement, Venn diagrams, [2]

4. Set Theoretic Equalities, The Algebra of sets, Set Products. [2]

3.9 Introduction to Probability

1. Introduction to probability, random experiments, sample spaces, events, mutually exclusive events,
axiomatic definition of probability, relative frequency, [2]

2. Computation of probabilities of finite sample spaces, cardinality of a set, probabilities based on sym-
metry, methods of enumerating sample points, conditional probability, total probability, independent
events, Bayes’ Law. [3]

3.10 Complex Numbers and Polynomials

1. Introduction, Operations, Rules of Complex arithmetic, [2]

2. Modulus, Complex conjugate, Division, Polar representation of complex numbers, De Moivre’s the-
orem and its application, [4]

3. Applications of complex numbers, The fundamental theorem of algebra. [4]

3.11 Matrices and Determinants

1. Matrix addition and multiplication, properties, Transpose of a matrix, square matrices, diagonal and
trace, Powers of matrices, [2]

2. Some special types of square matrices, Determinants, Laplace expansion of the determinant, Inverse
of matrices, [5]

3. Application of matrices, Elementary row operations, Inverses using row operations, Solving systems
of linear equations. [5]

4 Methods/Strategies to be used

1. lecture method,

2. group discussion,

3. seminars,

4. tutorials.

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5 Student Assessment

Students will write three, two hour tests after every three weeks.
The average of the tests will constitute the coursework mark where 25% of the coursework mark will
contribute to the final mark.
A 3 hour final examination will be written in the 14th or 15th week of the first semester.
The examination will contribute 75% to the final mark.
The examination paper has two sections; namely; section A and section B. Candidates may attempt ALL
questions in Section A and at most TWO questions in Section B. Section A carries 40 marks and each
question in section B carries 30 marks.

6 Selected Resources(references)

Recommended reading

ˆ S Lang, Calculus of Several Variables (Springer Science+Business Media New York).

ˆ P D Lax, M S Terrell, Calculus with Applications (Springer Science+Business Media New York).

ˆ M R Spiegel, Advanced Calculus (Schaum’s Outline Series).

ˆ J R Kirkwood, An Introduction To Analysis (PWS Publishing Company).

ˆ A Jeffrey, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations.

ˆ Antony Howard, Elementary Linear Algebra, 7th edition (Wiley, 1994)

ˆ M R Spigel, Complex Variables, Schaum Outline Series.

Additional reading

Any first year university Calculus text book.