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CS-381
Numerical Methods

Tentative schedule Fall 1999


Week Period Topics Assignment Due Lab
1
9/6-9/10
Lecture 1 No class - Labor Day   Quiz 1: Course Policies
Lecture 2 No class - President's picnic Read text, pages 1-33.
Lecture 3 Error analysis, Parallel processing  
2
9/13-9/17
Lecture 1 Nonlinear equations Read text, pages 38-70. Lab 1: Floating point errors
Lecture 2 Solution of equations Read text, pages 76-93.
Lecture 3 Solving a system of equations Read text, pages 109-147.
3
9/20-9/24
Lecture 1 Solving a system of equations cont... Read text, pages 147-164. Lab 2: Matrix Class
Lecture 2 Solving a system of equations cont... Read text, pages 164-184.
Lecture 3 Parallel processing Read text, pages 187-194.
4
9/27-10/1
Lecture 1 Exam 1  
Lecture 2 Interpolation Read text, pages 220-223.
Lecture 3 LaGrange polynomial Read text, pages 223-238.
5
10/4-10/8
Lecture 1 Splines Read text, pages 238-258. Lab 3: Least Squares Interpolation
Lecture 2 Least-squares curve fitting Read text, pages 264-280.
Lecture 3 Numerical differentiation Read text, pages 354-369.
6
10/11-10/15
Lecture 1 Numerical integration Read text, pages 377-389. Lab 4: Parallel processing
Lecture 2 Monte Carlo  
Lecture 3 Ordinary differential equation (ODE) Read text, pages 448-452.
7
10/18-10/22
Lecture 1 ODE: Taylor, Euler, Runge-Kutta Read text, pages 452-465. Lab 5: Monte Carlo Integration
Lecture 2 ODE: Multistep Read text, pages 465-468.
Lecture 3 ODE: Milne, Adams-Moulton Read text, pages 468-477.
8
10/25-10/29
Lecture 1 Review/Catch-up   Final Project
Lecture 2 Exam 2  
Lecture 3 Mathematical modeling Read text, pages 525-530.
9
11/1-11/5
Lecture 1 ODE: Boundary-Value problem Read text, pages 530-535.
Lecture 2 Partial differential equations (PDE) Read text, pages 600-606.
Lecture 3 PDE cont... Read text, pages 606-634.
10
11/8-11/12
Lecture 1 Final project issues  
Lecture 2 Monte Carlo and simulation  
Lecture 3 Class Cancelled  
11
11/18
2:00-4:00pm Final Exam    

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