Numerical Analysis FALL 2009

Teaching Assistant: Michael McPhelin, Office: 517 Wachman Hall; Office Hours: Monday 2-4, Wednesday 1-3, Friday 11-12 Others by arrangement. Use Michael's email to contact him: tua07903 at temple.edu

MATLAB information:

Getting Started in MATLAB; a pdf file (about 260 pages) available from the makers of MATLAB. Click here to go to the MATHWORKS page where this item can be accessed.
MATLAB Primer	Matlab General Information constructed for this course.

Via a search engine you can find other MATLAB information.

Intro_numanal_fall2009 document. Lists the text, topics covered, grading scheme & policies.

For a pdf file of CHAPTER 1 of the text, click here.

Dr. Hill's instructional MATLAB m-files for numerical analysis; click to here to download a zipped file.

Lecture	Topics/Section Notes/Handouts pdf files	Assignments	Some Solutions	Miscellaneous
9/1	NA General Intro An Over Simplified View of Applied Math Section 1.1 algorithms Chapter 1 Key Terms & Assignments Starting Matlab Matlab General Information	List of Exercises for Section 1.1 Two Modeling problems to solve Chapter 1 Key Terms & Assignments		Chapter 1 of the Text Book Handy Calculus Theorems Sketch a function Java Applet How to use Google as a calculator! OCTAVE software & information
9/3	Section 1.2 Convergence & Taylor's Thm	Chapter 1 Key Terms & Assignments		Reading assignment: Solutions to Exercises #13-15
9/8	Section 1.3 Floating Point Number Systems	Chapter 1 Key Terms & Assignments		First order linear DE; explanation and example It was Only a sign Error Disasters Caused by Computer Arithmetic Errors Some disasters attributable to bad numerical computing
9/10	Section 1.4 Math on the Computer	Chapter 1 Key Terms & Assignments		Collection of Software Bugs Worst Software Blunders
9/15	Section 2.1 Bisection	Assignments for 2.1 and 6.2
9/17	Section 6.2 Finite Differences
9/22	Euler's Method see pp546-550	Euler Assignment
9/24	Linear Interpolation	Linear interpolation Assignment
	Trapezoidal Rule	Trapezoidal Assignment
	Linear Boundary Value Problems see Pages 660-672	BVP_False Position Fixed Point Assignments
	Method of False Position Section 2.2
	Fixed Point Iteration Section 2.3
	Newton's Method Section 2.4	Handout on Newton's Method		Newton,Secant & (Basic) Gaussian Elimination Assignment
	Secant Method Section 2.5	Handout on Secant Method
	Gaussian Elimination Section 3.1
	Pivoting in Gaussian Elimination
	LU-factorization Section 3.5			Assignment for LU-factorization
	Interpolation & approximation			Assignment for Interpolation
	Piecewise interpolation
	Cubic Spline Interpolation	Spline definitions; read before using the notes		Assignment for splines and regression
	Regression			Additional Notes on Least Squares
	Quadrature; Sections 6.4 & 6.5	Handout of Examples & definitions from quadrature notes		Assignment on Newton-Cotes Quadrature
	Adaptive Quadrature
	FINAL EXAM m-files (zipped)

Dr. Hill, OFFICE: 512 WACHMAN HALL , 215-204-1654, dhill001 at temple.edu Office Hours: Monday, 9 – 11; Tuesday & Thursday 9-11, 1-2, others by arrangement Math 3043.001 (old 253) Numerical Analysis I, 3:30 - 4:50 T & Th Barton 401,

Dr. Hill, OFFICE: 512 WACHMAN HALL , 215-204-1654, dhill001 at temple.edu
Office Hours: Monday, 9 – 11; Tuesday & Thursday 9-11, 1-2, others by arrangement
Math 3043.001 (old 253) Numerical Analysis I, 3:30 - 4:50 T & Th Barton 401,