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Reading Assignments
| Week Of |
Textbook Sections |
Notes |
| Aug. 26–30 |
7.1–7.3, 8.1–8.6 |
Chap. 7 readings mostly for review. |
| Sep. 2–6 |
8.2–8.6, 8.16 |
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| Sep. 9–13 |
8.16, Supp. 1 |
1: "Constrained Least-Squares Optimization Using Minimized
Coefficient Magnitudes" |
| Sep. 16–20 |
8.8–8.12 |
Skim Secs. 8.9 and 8.11 |
| Sep. 23–27 |
8.10–8.13, Supps. 2–4
| Skim Sec. 8.11
2:
Mathworks Help Center documentation on factorizations
3: SVD readings from Numerical Recipes in C
4: "The Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra" (optional) |
| Sep. 30–Oct. 4 |
Chap. 1, 2.1–2.5
3.1–3.6, 3.8, 3.9
7.6; Supps. 3–4 |
Skim Chaps. 1 & 2 (mostly for review).
Selected parts of Chap. 3 covered in lectures.
Sec. 7.6 is an important review of vector spaces. |
| Oct. 7–11 |
Chap. 5, Supps. 5 & 6,
12.1 |
5: "Series Solution Method for ODEs"
6: "Meet the Bessels"
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| Oct. 14–18 |
12.1–12.3, 12.5,
Supp. 7 |
[no class or lab on Oct. 14];
7: "Sturm-Liouville Problems: Eigenfunction Orthogonality"
(optional) |
| Oct. 21–25 |
12.5, Supp. 7, 13.1–13.3 |
[Midterm Exam Oct. 21] |
| Oct. 28–Nov. 1 |
13.3, 13.4 |
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| Nov. 4–8 |
13.4, Supp. 8, 14.2, 6.5, 16.2 |
8: "D'Alembert's Solution of the 1-D Wave Equation Problem
in Unbounded Media";
read Sec. 6.5 up to first example |
| Nov. 11–15 |
16.2, 16.3, Supp. 9 |
Skip Crank-Nicholson section for now;
9: "Neumann Boundary Conditions in the Explicit Finite
Difference Solution of the 1-D Heat Equation" |
| Nov. 18–22 |
16.3, Supps. 9 & 10 |
10: "Open Boundaries in the Finite Difference Solution of the
1-D Wave Equation" |
| Dec. 2–6 |
16.2, 13.5 |
Focus on Crank-Nicholson method in Sec. 16.2. |
| Dec. 9–13 |
13.5 |
Monday, Dec. 9 is the last day of the semester. |
Notes:
- The section numbers specified above refer to the 6th edition of the textbook
by D. G. Zill.
- All supplemental readings are available at the course Moodle site.
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