First Year University
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This page contains notes and materials from my first
year of study at the
University of Sydney doing combined science/law.
The following courses are covered:
MATH1901 Differential Calculus
Differential Calculus is a first-year science course
at the University of Sydney that lays the foundation
for further studies in both pure and applied mathematics.
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MATH1901
Notes
Contains a summary of key concepts introduced in the course |
Notes |
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SOFT1901 Software Development 1
Software Development 1 is a first-year course at the
University of Sydney that introduces basic programming
concepts, in particular, in terms of Java. Its practical
component included a group assignment, which is available
in downloads > soft1901
project.
TSP Water Project
Each year, the Faculty of Science at the University
of Sydney organises a first-year project that brings
all the schools in the faculty under a common theme.
In 2004, the theme was "Water", and as part
of the Mathematics group, I investigated fractals, in
particular, the creation of snowflakes.
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Growing
Snowflakes using Diffusion Limited Aggregation
(DLA)
My individual presentation that discusses the program that I wrote to
produce snowflakes using DLA, as well as empirical analysis on the snowflakes
produced by the program. |
Presentation |
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Snowflakes
and Fractals
The group report on snowflakes and fractals that discusses the different
ways in which snowflakes can be created, as well as mathematical theory
underpinning fractals.
Credit: Thomas Clement,
Julian Gibbons, Jeff Gordon, Enoch Lau,
Ozan Onay, John Sun |
Report |
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Final
Presentation
The presentation that was delivered at the TSP night, and is a more user-friendly
version of the above report (it included animations, but these have been
excluded due to their size)
Credit: Thomas Clement,
Julian Gibbons, Jeff Gordon, Enoch Lau,
Ozan Onay, John Sun, presented by Julian
and Enoch |
Presentation |
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LAWS1010 Torts
Torts is a first-year law course at the University of
Sydney, and it's the first course in which "real" law
is studied after Foundations of Law. Torts is about civil
wrongs that society recognises, where one person may
bring an action against another. It encompasses such
things as trespass and negligence.
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Torts
Assignment
The compulsory assignment that was undertaken during the torts course |
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Class
Test
Contains exemplar responses for each of the questions in the class test |
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MATH1005 Statistics
Statistics is a first-year science course at the University
of Sydney.
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MATH1005
Notes
Contains a summary of key concepts introduced in the course |
Notes |
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MATH1903 Integral Calculus and Modelling
Integral Calculus and Modelling is a first-year science
course at the University of Sydney that extends upon
the principles learnt in differential calculus.
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MATH1903
Notes
Contains a summary of key concepts introduced in the course |
Notes |
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SOFT1902 Software Development 2
Software Development 2 is a first-year course at the
University of Sydney that extends upon the first semester
course. Once again, it includes a group project, which
is available at downloads > soft1902
project.
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Ethics
Report
Report that discusses the issues surrounding information access, and
explains how the project attempts to address those concerns.
Credit: Matthew Chen, Joshua Green, Enoch
Lau, Andrew Meares |
Report |
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Scalability
Report
Report that discusses the runtime complexity of various components of
the system, and compares empirical and theoretical results.
Credit: Matthew Chen,
Joshua Green, Enoch Lau, Andrew Meares |
Report |
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Testing
Report
Report that outlines unit testing performed on my part of the project. |
Report |
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PHYS1902 Physics 1B
Physics 1B is a first-year science course at the University
of Sydney. For students in the Talented Students Program
(TSP), part of the practical component of the course
could be replaced by research project with researchers
at the School of Physics. Together with Barry and Grace,
I did a project entitled "Hide and Seek: The Search
for High Redshift Galaxies".
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TSP
Report
The report on my section of the project, investigating the probability
of finding high redshift galaxies when certain parameters were altered. |
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TSP
Presentation
The presentation from everyone in the group that explains the concept
of redshift, characteristics of high redshift galaxies, and parameters
that were investigated.
Credits: Enoch Lau,
Grace Ng, Barry Tang |
Presentation |
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