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WEEK 1 27 - 31 August Course Introduction, outline, policies § 1.1 Vectors and plotting. Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] § 1.2 ... and Matrices Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] § 1.3 Building exploratory environments. Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] Exercises: P1.1.1, P1.2.4, P1.3.3
WEEK 2 3 - 7 September Mon 3
LABOR DAY HOLIDAY - no class meeting
§ 1.4 Error
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Exercises: P1.4.2, P1.4.10
NOTE: In P1.4.2 you do not need to take 50 terms. How many suffice?
WEEK 3 10 - 14 September § 1.5 Designing Functions Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] Fri 14 FIRST HOMEWORK DUE (PostScript) (Acrobat) Sample solutions (PostScript) (Acrobat)
WEEK 4 17 - 21 September § 2.1 Polynomial Interpolation: The Vandermonde Matrix Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] § 2.2 The Newton representation Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] Exercises: P2.1.1, P2.2.3
WEEK 5 24 - 28 September § 2.3 Properties Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] § 5.1 Setting up matrix problems Slides from lecture [PostScript] [Acrobat] § 5.2 Matrix Operations Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat]
WEEK 6 1 - 5 October § 5.3 Setting up matrix problems revisited Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] Wed 3 SECOND HOMEWORK DUE (PostScript) (Acrobat) Sample solutions (PostScript) (Acrobat) Thu 4
MIDTERM EXAM I: 7:00-8:30 PM, 18 Carver
CHAPTERS 1, 2, 5 [Textbook Required]
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Fri 5 NO CLASS MEETING
WEEK 7 8 - 12 October § 6.1 Triangular matrices. Exercise: P6.1.2 Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] § 6.2 Banded matrices. Exercise: P6.2.1 Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat]
WEEK 8 15 - 19 October § 6.3 Full matrices. Exercise: P6.3.5 Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] § 6.4 Analysis. Exercise: P6.4.1 Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat]
WEEK 9 22 - 26 October § 7.1 Least squares fitting. Exercise: P7.1.2 Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] § 7.2 The QR factorization. Exercise: P7.2.4 Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] § 7.3.1-2 The Cholesky Factorization. Exercise: P7.3.1 Boundary value problems and symmetric tridiagonal matrices. Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] Fri 26
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WEEK 10 29 October - 2 November § 8.1 Finding roots. Exercise: P8.1.9 Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] § 8.2 Minimizing a function of one variable. Exercise: P8.2.4 Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat]
WEEK 11 5 - 9 November Review of multidimensional calculus (gradient, hessian, conditions for a minimum) § 8.3 Minimizing multivariate functions. Exercise: P8.3.1 Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] § 8.4 Solving systems of nonlinear equations Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat]
WEEK 12 12 - 16 November Wed 14 FOURTH HOMEWORK DUE (PostScript) (Acrobat) Sample solutions (PostScript) (Acrobat) Thu 15
MIDTERM EXAM II: 7:00-8:30 PM, 18 Carver.
CHAPTERS 5 - 8 Textbook Required
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Fri 16 NO CLASS MEETING
THANKSGIVING BREAK
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WEEK 13 26 - 30 November § 9.1 ODE Initial Value Problems: Basic Concepts Exercise: P9.1.2 Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat]
WEEK 14 3 - 7 December § 9.2 The Runge-Kutta methods. Exercise: P9.2.2 Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat] § 9.3 The Adams methods. Exercise: P9.3.1 Slides [PostScript] [Acrobat]
WEEK 15 10 - 14 December § 9.3 ... continued. Stiff problems. Fri 14 FIFTH HOMEWORK DUE (PostScript) (Acrobat) Sample solutions (PostScript) (Acrobat)
EXAM WEEK 17 - 21 December Tue 18 Final Exam 7:30 - 9:30 AM, 2050 Agronomy (Regular Classroom) Topics and Directions for preparing: [PostScript] [Acrobat] Fall 2000 Final Exam: [PostScript] [Acrobat] Solutions: [PostScript] [Acrobat] Spring 2000 Final Exam: [PostScript] [Acrobat]
