Numerical Methods and Programing
Jan 2014

Welcome to the Numerical Methods and Programing course + lab website! This page will contain information about the course including class notes, hands-on session information and solution sets. Please check this page time to time for corrected notes and new information regarding the course.

Where and When?

• Tuesday: 11:00 am - 11:50 am HSB-310 (Lecture)
• Wednesday: 10:00 am - 10:50 am HSB-310 (Lecture)
• Thursday: 8:00 am - 8:50 am HSB-310 (Lecture)
• Tuesday/Thursday: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm DKC (Digital Knowledge Center, Central Library) (Lab sessions)

Office Hours

By appointment

Recent changes to this page:

• Notes and additional notes, as well as the last session has been uploaded.

Class notes and hand-outs

• Introduction, Precision and accuracy
• Errors
• Differentiation
• Integration
• Interpolation
• Root Finding
• Linear Algebra: Solving Linear Equations
• Linear Algebra: Eigensystems
• Ordinary Differential Equations: Initial Value Problems
• Ordinary Differential Equations: Boundary Value Problems
• Partial Diffential Equations
• Data Fitting

Additional Notes

• Differentiation (Landau and Paes)
• Integration (Landau and Paes)

Lab sessions (Worksheet)

• Session 1 Worksheet
• Session 2 Worksheet
• Session 3 Worksheet
• Session 4 Worksheet
• Session 5 Worksheet
• Session 6 Worksheet
• Session 7 Worksheet
• Session 8 Worksheet
• Session 9 Worksheet

DKC Sessions - Compressed files

• Session 1
• Session 2
• Session 3
• Session 4 Advanced Beginners
• Session 5
• Session 6
• Session 7: All codes have to be written from scratch!
• Session 8: All codes have to be written from scratch!
• Session 9
• Final
• Final (Makeup)

Tutorials

• C-tutorial 1
• gnuplot tutorial
• Gnu Debugger Quick Reference
• Useful Linux Commands

Compressed Codes

• Codes for Pointers and Structures tutorial