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Lecture notes and screencasts are available in the table below. Notes will be posted prior to each lecture. Screencasts of the lecture will be posted following the lecture. Other files & supplementary materials will also be posted below.
Please note that screencasts are provided as a courtesy, and are not intended to be a replacement for in-class attendance.
| Date | Reading Assignment | Lecture Notes | Screencast | Other Resources |
| 8/22/2016 | Moler preface
Moler intro sections 1.1, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7 | Introduction | Introduction | Matlab Tutorials on my wiki |
| 8/24/2016 | Linear algebra review
Moler 2.1, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.10 | Linear Systems of Equations - direct solvers | Introduction (continued)
Direct solvers for linear systems - part 1 | Linear systems in Matlab on my wiki |
| 8/29/2016 | | | Direct solvers for linear systems - part 2 | circuit.m |
| 8/31/2016 | Moler section 2.9 | Linear Systems of Equations - iterative solvers | Last thoughts on the Thomas Algorithm & homework 2
Iterative methods for linear systems (part 1) | |
| 9/7/2016 | | | Jacobi & Gauss-Seidel algorithms | |
| 9/12/2016 | Moler 3.1-3.2 | Interpolation | Interpolation - part 1 | |
| 9/14/2016 | | | Examples of interpolation in Matlab; cubic splines | inClassInterpDemo.m |
| 9/19/2016 | Moler 5.1-5.2,5,5 | Linear least squares regression | 2D Interpolation
Regression - part 1 | Supplemental notes on regression |
| 9/21/2016 | | | Regression - part 2 | rateConstant.m |
| 10/5/2016 | | | Regression - part 3 | |
| 10/17/2016 | Moler Chapter 6 | Numeric integration | Nonlinear least squares regression
Numeric Integration | |
| 10/19/2016 | | Numeric differentiation | Numerical Differentiation | |
| 10/24/2016 | Moler 4.1 | Nonlinear Equations | Second derivatives
Nonlinear equations - part 1 | |
| 10/26/2016 | | | Nonlinear Equations - Newton's method | |
| 10/31/2016 | | | Nonlinear equations - part 3 (matlab & Excel tools, Nonlinear Systems) | |
| 11/2/2016 | | | Nonlinear Systems - Matlab Examples | example_1.m
newton.m |
| 11/7/2016 | Moler Chapter 7 | Ordinary Differential Equations | Matlab example: finite difference jacobians for Newton's method
Intro to ODEs | Newton's method with finite difference Jacobian example: example_sys_fd.m
newton_fd_sys.m |
| 11/9/2016 | | | ODEs - part 2. Forward Euler for Initial Value Problems | forward_euler.m
lobster_convection.m
lobster_radiation.m
lobster.m |
| 11/14/2016 | | | Systems of ODEs, backward Euler | projectile_driver.m
projectile_rhs.m |
| 11/16/2016 | | | Backward Euler Examples | backward_euler.m
Note that the example in class uses newton_fd.m from above, and driver files as well. |
| 11/23/2016 | | | Crank-Nicholson, Matlab's integrators, systems of ODEs | kinetics.m
kinetics_driver.m
wheel.m |
| 11/28/2016 | | | Boundary value problems | |
| 11/30/2016 | | Partial Differential Equations (an introduction) | Nonlinear boundary value problems
PDEs (part 1) | |
| 12/5/2016 | | | PDEs (part 2) | Matlab files for examples in the notes |