Tuesday

Thursday

Jan 14 Lesson: Introduction to numerical methods

Links: numerical disasters page, software bugs page

Homework 1: Due 21 Jan
Pick a bug/disaster from the links above and write a 1 page or so summary that focuses on the numerical issue.

Reading: pp. 3 - 18

Jan 16 Lab 1: Continuing On... Mr. Taylor, I Presume?

Homework 2: Due Jan 23
Chapter 3 (p. 72), 3.6 (using Mathematica), 3.8

Reading: Chapter 3

Jan 21 Lesson: Errors

Due Today: Homework 1

Reading: Chapter 3

Jan 23 Lab 2: Error: Does Not Compute!

Links: SCUD missile incident from Federation of American Scientists page

Due Today: Lab 1, Homework 2

Reading: Chapter 3

Jan 28 Lesson: Taylor Series and error propagation

Reading: Chapter 4

Jan 30 Lab 3: Curious George Meets Mr. Taylor

Due Today: Lab 2

Feb 4 Lesson: Root Finding

Reading: Chapter 5, pp. 124 - 130, Chapter 6, pp. 133 - 153

Feb 6 Lab 4: Meet Me in the Middle!

Feb 11 Lesson: Fixed Point Iteration, Convergence, and Errors

Reading: Chapter 6, pp. 134 - 138, Epilogue, pp. 212 - 215

Feb 13 Lab 5: Convergence: Getting Back to our Roots

Feb 18 Lesson: Convergence and Complexity

Feb 20 Test 1

Feb 25 Lesson: Numerical Linear Algebra
Introduction

Reading: pp. 217 - 230, Chapter 9 pp. 231 - 261

Handout: Project 1
Project 1 Mathematica Notebook
Due on: 28 March (Friday)

Feb 27 Lab: Work on Projects!

Mar 4 Lesson: Norm and the Ill-Conditionings

Reading: Sections 9.2 and 10.3

Mar 6 Lab 6: LU-Dog in the Van

Mar 11 Spring Break

Campus Closed

Mar 13 Spring Break

Campus Closed

Mar 18 Lesson: Complexity and Iterative Methods

Reading: Chapter 10 and Section 11.2

Mar 20 Lesson:Complexity

Mar 25 Lesson: Iterative Methods

Mar 27 Lesson: Iterative Methods

Handout: Project 2
Project 2 Mathematica Notebook
Due on: 11 April (Friday)

Apr 1 Lesson: Interpolation

Reading: Sections 18.1 - 18.2

Apr 3 Lab 7: Polynomial Interpolation

Reading: Section 18.2

Apr 8 Lesson: Work on Projects

Apr 10 Lab 8: Polynomial Interpolation and Approximation

Apr 15 Lesson: Splines, Regression, and Least Squares

Reading: Section 18.6 and Chapter 17

Apr 17 Lab 9: Regressing Splines

Apr 22 Lesson: Newton-Cotes Numerical Integration

Reading: Chapter 21

Apr 24 Lab 10: Integrate This!

Apr 29 Lesson: Quadrature Methods

Reading: Chapter 22

May 1 Lab 11: Numerical Integration II

FINAL EXAM PERIOD: Monday May 5
3:00 - 4:45
Project 2 Due