Welcome to MthSc 365 Section 2 Numerical Methods for Engineers (Spring 2014)
(online at http://www.math.clemson.edu/~heister/math365-spring2014/)
Instructor: Dr. Timo Heister, heister@clemson.edu, http://www.math.clemson.edu/~heister/
Please contact me via email for questions, appointments, etc..
Handouts and Resources
- This site: http://www.math.clemson.edu/~heister/math365-spring2014/
- Blackboard: http://bb.clemson.edu
- Syllabus (see blackboard)
- Lecture notes (on blackboard)
- Homework (on blackboard)
Class Schedule
See http://www.registrar.clemson.edu/pdf/academicCalendar.pdf and http://www.registrar.clemson.edu/html/examSched.htm for important dates.
Schedule (Chapters refer to the lecture notes):
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January 8:
- Introduction
- Syllabus
- Chapter 1.1, 1.2: numerical methods, analytical solution
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January 10:
- 1.3: Convergence
- 2.1: Binary Numbers
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January 13:
- 2.2, 2.3: binary floating point numbers
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January 15:
- Matlab introduction
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January 17:
- finish 2.3
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January 22:
- work on homework 3
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January 24:
- recursion example
- Taylor Series/Theorem (3)
- Forward/Backwards Difference Formula (3.1.1)
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January 27:
- FD/BD order
- Centered Difference (3.1.2)
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January 31:
- work on MATLAB homework
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February 3:
- three point formulas
- second order derivatives
- intro: finite differences
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February 5:
- finite difference demo
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February 7:
- lab: finite differences
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February 10:
- convection-diffusion-reaction equation (finish chapter 3)
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February 17:
- bisection algorithm (chapter 4)
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February 19:
- lab work
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February 21:
- lab work
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February 24:
- midterm1
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February 26:
- Newton's method
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February 28:
- finish chapter 4:
- Secant method, Newton in higher dimensions
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March 3:
- summary nonlinear methods
- intro: linear systems
- Algorithm: Backsubstitution
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March 31:
- work on HW12
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April 2:
- curve fitting (7)
- Intro: numerical integration (Ch 8)
- Newton Cotes formulas
Date: 2014-04-02 10:02:48 EDT
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