Daily Log and Materials
Daily topics and PDFs (handouts and worksheets) will appear here as they occur. You do not have to turn-in any handout or worksheet! Note that the recorded lectures are in Announcements at Canvas course page.
- Friday 6 December a stochastic differential equation example
- Wednesday 4 December CDFs, expectations, pseudorandom number generators
- Monday 2 December random numbers, Monte Carlo
- Monday 25 November proof that Euler method converges
- Friday 22 November activity: P14 on Assignment 9
- Wednesday 20 November implicit, local truncation error
- Monday 18 November ode45, implicit methods
- Friday 15 November midpoint and RK4; compare to numerical integration
- Wednesday 13 November Euler method
- Monday 11 November examples, well-posedness
- Friday 8 November ordinary differential equations; Assignment 7 due
- Wednesday 6 November Romberg integration; Chapter 11: ordinary differential equations
YouTube video: simulation of OSIRIS-APEX to asteroid Apophis - Monday 4 November Clenshaw-Curtis integration; proposal due
- Friday 1 November Gauss quadrature
- Wednesday 30 October Simpson's rule and composite rules
- Monday 28 October Chapter 10: numerical integration
- Friday 25 October cubic splines; project start
YouTube video on physical spline for drafting - Wednesday 23 October piecewise-linear interpolation
- Monday 21 October Chebyshev points
- Friday 18 October cont.
- Wednesday 16 October polynomial error theorem
- Monday 14 October Lagrange's form
- Friday 11 October Midterm Exam
- Wednesday 9 October Chapter 8: polynomial interpolation
- Monday 7 October linear systems
- Friday 4 October counting operations
- Wednesday 2 October linear systems
- Monday 30 September Gaussian elimination as LU
- Friday 27 September Chapter 7: linear systems
- Wednesday 25 September floating point
- Monday 23 September floating point
worksheet: how binary12 might work - Friday 20 September fixed point iterations; fractals; Chapter 5: floating point
2 page PDF summary: the IEEE 754 standard - Wednesday 18 September fixed point iterations
PDF slides: covered slides 1 through 9 - Monday 16 September asynchronous: polynomial interpolation preview
PDF slides: How to put a polynomial through points - Friday 13 September Newton's method rate of convergence
- Wednesday 11 September Taylor's theorem; Newton's method
- Monday 9 September bisection finished; Taylor's theorem
- Friday 6 September bisection; Matlab function functions
- Wednesday 4 September Chapter 4: root-finding
(Chapter 4) - Monday 2 September Labor Day, no class
- Friday 30 August 3 examples continued; Matlab
- Wednesday 28 August 3 examples continued; Matlab
- Monday 26 August Chapter 2: Matlab; 3 examples
(Chapters 1, 2)