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MM 246 - Numerical Methods |
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Lecturer: |
Dr Niall Madden |
Office Hours: |
Tues, Wed, Thurs 10-11. |
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Lectures: |
Monday and Friday @ 12, D'Arcy Thomson |
Lab: |
Tuesday 7-9, Block S. |
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Course Content: |
Numerical Methods. |
Assessment: |
Lab assignments and Written summer paper |
| Feb 12: | Error estimation by halving n. |
| Feb 12 | Lab 1: | Numerical Integration. | Program Code | |
| Feb 19 | Lab 2: | Numerical Integration II. | ||
| Instructions: Submit a printout of your program, and andswer computed in in Questions 3 and 4 no later than Feb 25th. | ||||
| Feb 26 | Lab 3: | Jacobi's Method. | Program Code | |
| Mar 12 | Lab 4: | Gauss-Seidel Method. | ||
| Instructions: Submit a printout of your program, and answers computed in Questions 1,3 and 4 no later than March 18th. | ||||
| Mar 19 | Lab 5: | The Power Method. | ||
| Instructions: Submit a printout of your program, and along with the value of the dominant Eigenvalue of A, no later than April 12th. | ||||
| Problem Set I: | Numerical Integration | (1 page) |
| Notes on Questions 1 and 2. | ||
| Notes on Questions 3 and 4. | ||
| A problem similar to Question 6. | ||
| Problem Set II: | Solving Linear Systems | (2 pages) |
| Notes on Questions 3 and 4. | ||
| Notes on Questions 5-9. | ||
| Problem Set III: | Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors | (2 pages) |
| Notes on PS 3. | ||
| Problem Set IV: | Differential Equations | (2 pages) |
| Notes on PS 4 | (4 pages) | |
The relevent past papers are MM246 from 2000 and 2001, and Section B of MA255 from 1998-1999.
More to follow...
Fri Feb 4, 2002