Wed - November 22, 2006

Homework for Week 12. 


Recktenwald Chapter 9 questions 1, 7 and 8. 

Posted at 12:01 PM    

Fri - November 17, 2006

Homework for Week 11. 


This homework is about numerical methods for solving ordinary differential equations.
Recktenwald Chapter 12 questions 10 12 a) 13 a) 15 a) and 18 a). 

Posted at 10:03 AM    

Fri - November 10, 2006

Homework for week 10. 


This homework is about Euler's method for solving ordinary differential equations.

Recktenwald Chapter 12. questions 3, 4,5 and 6. 

Posted at 09:25 AM    

Thu - November 2, 2006

Homework for Week 9. 


This homework is about Gaussian quadrature. The questions are in the attached PDF file.
HW9.pdf  

Posted at 04:32 PM    

Fri - October 27, 2006

Homework for Week 8. 


This homework is about numerical integration, also known as numerical quadrature. The questions are in the attached PDF file.
HW8.pdf  

Posted at 03:54 PM    

Wed - October 18, 2006

Homework for Week 7. 


These questions deal with piece-wise polynomial interpolation. See the attached PDF file. HW7.pdf  

Posted at 02:49 PM    

Fri - October 13, 2006

Homework for Week 6 


These questions deal with polynomial interpolation using the monomial, Lagrange, and Newton bases. HW6.pdf  

Posted at 04:13 PM    

Fri - October 6, 2006

Homework Week 5. 


This homework is about norms and condition numbers.


Recktenwald Chapter 8. questions 22 and 35.

For question 22 determine the condition numbers of the matrices used to obtain the interpolating parabola.

For question 35 repeat the experiments using cond(A,1) and cond(A,inf).
 

Posted at 11:10 AM    

Thu - September 28, 2006

Homework: Week 4.  


The questions on the attached PDF file are on linear algebra and Gaussian elimination. HW.pdf  

Posted at 03:38 PM    

Fri - September 22, 2006

Homework Week 3. 


No new homework for week 3. Finish up the homework for week 1 and 2. We will review solutions on Wednesday as preparation for Fridays quiz. 

Posted at 01:11 PM    

Wed - September 20, 2006

Homework: Week 2. 


The questions on the PDF file are on root finding algorithms. HW2.pdf  

Posted at 11:54 AM    

Thu - September 14, 2006

Homework: Week 1. 


Questions are from our textbook Gerald Recktenwald, Numerical Methods with Matlab 2000

Chapter 2. 1, 3 a) b) 4. 12, 15, 20, 24
Chapter 5. 1, 10, 14

Convert the following binary numbers to decimal

a) 11
b) 101
c) 0.1
d) 0.101

Suppose we are using a floating point number system with Base 2, using a 4 bit mantissa and an exponent in the range -3 .. 4. What are the values for eps, realmin and realmax in this system.
 

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