Math 410

 Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers


Catalog description: Floating point arithmetic, solution of linear and nonlinear systems of equations, interpolation, numerical differentiation and integration, numerical solution of ordinary differential equations
Credit hours: 3 cr, 3 cl hrs
Prerequisites: (CS 101 Minimum Grade: D or
CS 111 Minimum Grade: D or 
ES 111 Minimum Grade: D ) and 
MATH 231 Minimum Grade: C- and 
MATH 335 Minimum Grade: D (co-requisite)

Fall 2007

Instructor: Dr. Rakhim Aitbayev, Dept. of Mathematics, Weir 236, x5463, aitbayev@nmt.edu
Office hours: MWF 8:30 A.M.-10:30 P.M
Time and place: TR 2:00--3:15 A.M.,  Weir 209
Textbook: Numerical Analysis by R.L. Burden and J.D. Faires, 8th edition, Brooks/Cole.

Syllabus:
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Homework

Homework
Problems
Due
1
1.2: 1h, 4d, 5e, 13d, 15c
1.3: 6(b,c), 7(b,d)
Aug. 28
2
2.1: Program the bisection method; 5c, 12, 15
2.2: 8, 11(f), 13, 20(a)

Sep. 4
3
2.3: Program Newton's and the secant methods. 6(a), 8(a)
2.4: Program method (2.11), 1b, 3b, 8
Sep. 11
4
10.1: 5
10.2: 2(d) (change this problem), 3(b), 10
10.3: 1(c)
Sept 20
Thursday
5
10.4: 1b
3.1: 5(c), 7(c), 9(c)
3.2: 2, 8
Sep. 27
Thursday
6
3.3: 1(a),  3(a),  7(a)
3.4: 3(d), 5(d), 8(d)
Oct 4, Thursday
7
4.1: 1(b), 3(b), 5(b), 24(a), 29
4.2: 5, 9
4.3: 1(g), 3(g), 5(g), 9(g), 15
Oct. 16
Tuesday
8
4.4: 13 (b, you may use Maple), 21(use Matlab's "quad")
4.5: You may use Maple's "trapezoid". 1(h), 3(h), 5(h)
4.6: 1a, 5a (use a textbook program Alg 4.3), 6a
Oct. 23
Tuesday

9
4.7:  1d, 3d, 5,
4.8: 2b, 6b
You may use textbook programs; Determine n experimentally;
Compare numbers of function evaluations  for determined values of n.

Oct. 30
Tuesday
10
5.1: 8(c)
5.2: 9 (use your own program)
5.4: Program Runge-Kutta method of order 4.
Use your program to solve the IVP in Problem 3(b) with h=0.1 and h=0.01. Plot the logarithmic error curves
log_10 |y(i)-w(i)|.

Nov. 15
Thursday

11
5.6: 12
5.9: 2a, 3a
5.9: 5
5.11: 3c, 7c, 9, 11

Nov. 27
Tuesday






Rakhim Aitbayev