Guido Kanschat - MATH 417, Spring 2011
Please refer to my personal homepage for
contact information.
The syllabus
is online on Howdy.
Factsheets
Homework
Please hand in your homework in the lab session.
Qualifiers like "only part a" apply to the whole, comma
separated list before them, but do not apply across a semicolon.
Homework questions marked with an asterisk (*) are meant for those
of you who need an extra challenge; they are not required to pass
the exams. Nevertheless, they are highly recommended for
mathematics majors.
- Due Jan 24: section 2.1 problems 2, 3, 5b, 15, 19
- Due Jan 31: section 2.2 problems 3, 8, 11 b, c, e,
24*; section 2.3 problem 2
- Due Feb 7: section 2.2: problems 16, 20, 23; section
2.3 problems 5 (replace "accuracy 10-4" by "such that
|f(x)| < 10-4"), 26, 27, 34
- Due Feb 14: section 3.1: problems 2, 4, 18, 19, 22
- Due Feb 21: review all previous homework questions to be prepared for the exam
- Due Mar 6: section 4.3 problems 1 c,d, 5 c,d, 13, 14, 17; section 4.4 problems 2 a,d, 4a,d
- Due Mar 20: section 4.4, problems 8 a,b, 22; section 8.2 problems 7, 14
- Due Mar 27: section 8.2, problems 2b, d, 15*; section 4.7 problems 1, 2, 3 (a, b each), 5, 8*
- Due Apr 3: section 6.5, problems 5a, 9a (if using a
program, make sure you print every intermediate matrix A_i);
section 6.6 problem 1, 5a and read up on Cholesky factorization
- Due Apr 10: section 1.2, problems 5a,b,e;
section 7.1, problems 1 a, c, 2 a, c, 3a, 4a, 5a, 9a, 11;
section 7.2, problems 1 a, c, 3a, 15, 16, 18*
- Due Apr 17: review all previous homework questions to be prepared for the exam
Exams
- 1st midterm: 2/22/12 during class.
Solutions are here.
- 2nd midterm: 4/18/12 during class.
- 4.3, 4.4, 4.7: Newton-Cotes quadrature, Gauss
quadrature, degree of accuracy, composite quadrature,
quadrature error, error estimates
- 8.2: Orthogonal polynomials, polynomial approximation
- 1.2: round-off errors
- 6.6: types of matrices
- Final: 5/7/12, 10:30am-12:30pm.
Grades
Grades will be on
the E-learning web page
of Texas A&M University.
Textbook
- Burden/Faires: Numerical Analysis, 9th editition (if you own
an older edition, please make sure the problem numbers for
homework coincide)