Course Schedule 

                           

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Tentative Schedule

Date   Day Sec Topic
Aug  19 R 1.1 Preliminaries
  24 T 1.2 Computer Arithmetic/Wilkinson Set
  26 R 1.3 Loss of Significance/Examples
  31 T 2.1-2.2 Bisection/Iteration
Sep 2 R 2.3 Newton-Raphson Method
  6 M   Labor Day
  7 T 2.4-2.5 Error Analysis/Convergence
  9 R 3.1 Linear Interpolation
  14 T 3.2 Divided Differences
  16 R 3.3-3.4 Hermite Interpolation/Cubic Splines
  21 T 4.1 Numerical Differentiation
  23 R 4.2 Richardson's Extrapolation
  28 T 4.3 Numerical Integration
  30 R 4.4-4.5 Composite/Adaptive Integration
 Oct 5 T 4.6-4.7 Romberg Integration/Gaussian Quadrature
  7 R   Fall Vacation
  8 F   Fall Vacation
  12 T 5.1-5.2 Initial Value Problems/Euler's Method
  14 R 5.3-5.4 Taylor Methods/Runga-Kutta
  19 T 5.5-5.6 Runga-Kutta-Fehlberg/Multistep Methods
  21 R Other Considerations
  26 T 5.10 Stability
  28 R 6.1-6.2 Linear Systems/Pivoting
Nov  2 T 6.3 Linear Algebra/Inversion
  4 R 6.4-6.5 Determinants/Factorization
  9 T 6.6 Matrices
  11 R 7.1 Theory/Norms
  16 T 7.2 Eigenvalue Problems
  18 R 7.3 Iterative Techniques
  23 T 8.1 Least Squares
  24 W   Thanksgiving
  25 R   Thanksgiving
  26 F   Thanksgiving
  30 T  8.2-8.3 Orthogonal Polynomials
 Dec 2 R  8.5-8.6 Fourier Methods
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