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Announcements
- Spring
2009
May 8 - Here are the answers to the sample exam questions
posted on May 4. The solutions to Homework 6 have been posted to
the Homework page. You can pick up your HW6 next week during
Chuck Swanson's office hours (1:15-3:00 Monday, 1701 University Avenue,
room 211, and 10:30-noon, Thursday, EE/CS 2-170) or advising hours
(1:00-3:00, Wed. and Thurs., EE/CS 4-196).
Please note tha Chuck Swanson and James Parker will hold regular office
hours next week but Guoquan Huang will not.
May 6 - Here are the links to the
HPC and numerical algorithms sites we looked at today:
May 5 - Here
is another extra credit problem,
also worth 20
points and due on or before the beginning
of
class on Friday, May 8.
Do Computer Problem 2 on page 475 involving systems of ODEs.
Include listings of all the MATLAB M-files used and an execution script.
May 4 - The
final exam will be on Saturday, May 16, 8:00-10:00. The
exam is closed-book but you may
bring three 8.5 X 11 page of
notes (both sides) and a calculator.
Here
is a review document
listing topics to be covered and a set of sample
exam questions. The answers will be posted later this week.
April 29 -
Here is an extra credit
problem that is worth 20 points, due on or before the beginning
of
class on Friday, May 8.
Do Computer Problem 4 on page 461. You do not have to do the
derivation, just write and test a MATLAB M-file function that
implements the Adams-Bashforth-Moulton
method. Then use it to solve the problem on page 443:
x' = 2 + (x -t -1)2
x(1) = 2
on the interval [1, 1.5625]
You must turn in a listing of the function, any driver function
used, and an execution script. (Hint: see the summary of the A-B-M
method on page 459).
April 24 - This week's
examples on
solving ODEs:
Euler's Method
Runge-Kutta Method
Adaptive Runge-Kutta Method
April 20 - Homework
assignment 6 has been posted. It's due Monday, May 4.
April 17 - Here are today's
cubic spline files:
Examples for
iterative
solutions to linear systems:
April 15 -
Notes from today's
lecture:
April 11 -
Here are the Gauss
Elimination files for HW5:
April 7 -
Here are the
solutions to sample questions 1-4
and question 5 posted on
April 4. The HW4 solution document has also been posted to the
Homework page.
April 4 - Here are sample midterm
exam 2 questions.
Solutions will be posted on Tuesday.
Homework
assignment 5 has been posted.
April 3 - This week's examples:
March 31 - Midterm
exam 2 will be Wednesday, April 8. It will
be a 50-minute exam
covering chapters 1-6.
Here is a review document
listing topics to be covered. The exam is closed-book but you may
bring one 8.5 X 11 page of notes (both sides) and a calculator.
March 27 - Today's notes on
Gaussian Elimination:
March 25 - This
week's Gaussian
quadrature examples:
March 13 Homework
assignment 4 has been posted. It's not due until April 1.
Have a great spring break!
March 12 -
This week's
numerical
integration examples:
Here are the midterm
exam 1 solutions.
March 9 - Problem 5 in HW3 ask
you to write functions for the Lagrange interpolation polynomial
analogous to Div_Def and Eval for the Newton interpolation
polynomial. The following will explain what this means.
Consider a second order Lagrange interpolating polynomial (using 3
points x0, x1,
x2). Then the first term of f(x) is
(x - x1)*(x - x2) * f(x0)
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(x0 - x1)*(x0 - x2)
This is a constant coefficient times (x - x1)* (x - x2). The Coef
function should calculate this constant
f(x0)
---------------------------
(x0 - x1)*(x0 - x2)
along with the other two.
These can then be passed to function Eval along with the x values and
the "interpolation value" t in order to evaluate the Lagrange poly at t.
March 7 -
Here are the first
numerical integration examples:
February 27 -
Recent examples:
February 24 - Midterm
exam 1 will be Wednesday,
March 4. It will be a 50-minute exam
covering chapters 1-3.
Here is a review document
listing topics to be covered. The exam is closed-book but you may
bring one 8.5 X 11 page of notes (both sides) and a calculator.
February 20 - Homework
assignment 3 has been posted. Here are this week's examples:
February 12 -
The
solution to Homework 1 has been posted to the Homework page.
Here is a description of "varargin" which
permits a variable number of arguments to be passed in to a function function.
This may be useful for HW2 problem 7 (Kepler).
Here is the M-file for the Newton's method example done in class:
February 6 - Here are the lecture
notes for the incremental search method
to locate values
that bracket the roots of a function. Note that the function in
this example is on page 79 of the text.
February 5 -
Homework
assignment 2 has been posted
Here are this week examples (so far):
January 30 - Here
are the
slides used in this week's floating point number
exercise
along with today's M-file:
January 26 -
Homework
assignment 1 has been posted.
Office hours for the instructor and TAs are now on the Syllabus page.
January 23 - Here are
the
slides on High Performance Computing
that were used along with the HPC video.
Here are the sample Matlab m-file scripts from Friday's class:
January
19 - Note that the discussion
sections on Tuesday,
January 20 will meet even
though the first lecture is on Wednesday.
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Welcome to
CSci 2031, Introduction to
Numerical Computing.
Be sure to check out the other
pages listed on the menu bar. These will be updated as
information becomes available.
Students should get an ITLabs computer account for Spring Semester 2009
before attending the first lecture, if possible. This
can be done online at http://www.itlabs.umn.edu/.
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