MTH439 Numerical Analysis

MTH 439 Numerical Analysis

Fall Semester 2008 (081)

Instructor: Karen E. Donnelly

Course Syllabus

e-text: http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu/topics/textbook_index.html

	Assignments
Useful Links for this Course	Labs

Tentative Exam Schedule and Review Guides

Exam # 1 -- Wednesday Sept. 24th Review Guide

Exam # 2 -- Wednesday Oct. 22^nd Review Guide

Exam # 3 -- Friday November 21^st Review Guide

Final Exam: Comprehensive – Monday., Dec. 8^th 8:00 a.m.

Labs

Lab 08/22/08 MATLAB Fundamentals

Lab 08/29/08 Bisection and False Position Root Finding (Word) (PDF) m-files for this lab to download: Bisect.m Regula.m

Lab 09/05/08 Newton Raphson Method (Word) (PDF) m-files for this lab to download: newton.m newton2.m

Newton Raphson Sample Excel Worksheet

Lab 09/19/08 Lu Factorization and Gauss Seidel mfiles to download: luquick.m gseid.m

Lab 09/26/08 Ill-Conditioned Matrices

Lab 10/03/08 Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials mfiles to download: lagran.m newpoly.m

Lab 10/17/08 Least Squares Line and Data Linearization mfiles to download: lsline.m

Lab 10/22/08 Numerical Differentiation Error Analysis mfile to download: difflim.m

Lab 10/31/08 Numerical Integration: Trapezoidal and Simpson’s Rules

Lab 11/07/08 Numerical Solution to Differential Equations mfiles to download heun.m and euler.m

Lab 11/14/08 Comparing Runge-Kutta Methods mfile to download rk4.m

Useful Links for this Course

We will be using the e-text and resources of the Holistic Numerical Methods Institute website.

The main web page is http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu/ and the e-text is at http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu/topics/textbook_index.html