Keele University Mathematics Undergraduate Programmes 2020 2020 Entry | Page 13

Undergraduate Programmes 2020 | 13
Dynamics
At its outset the purpose of “classical
mechanics” was to predict the future and
determine the history of every particle
in the universe. Modern science has
established this to be an impossible
task, however the laws of Newton are
still widely applicable and contain a rich
variety of phenomena of interest to many
branches of science and engineering.
In this module we use mathematics,
Newton’s laws and concepts of energy
to study a range of particle systems,
including projectiles with air resistance,
springs with damping and forcing,
pendulums, rocket motion and planetary
orbits. A key aspect of the module is
the skill of translating a description of
a physical system into a well-defined
mathematical problem.
Linear Statistical Models
This module presents an introduction to
statistical inference and illustrates the
theory with practical applications to real
life data sets.
The first half of the module covers
hypothesis testing, confidence interval
and parameter estimation. The second
half of the module considers regression
and analysis of variance methods,
and demonstrates how statistical models
can be used to draw conclusions
from observations and experimental
data collected in the physical and
social sciences.
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