CmpE 360

 

Numerical Methods

 

•          Instructor: Lale Akarun, ETA 201, akarun@boun.edu.tr

•          TA: Cem Keskin, ETA 412, keskinc@cmpe.boun.edu.tr

•          Course Hours: MMT 232 ETAZ04

•          Textbook: Michael T. Heath, Scientific Computing, McGraw Hill, 2002.

Reference Book: Burden and Faires, Numerical Analysis, 7th ed, Brooks/Cole, 2001

 

Topics

 

1.    Floating point numbers and arithmetic

2.    Solutions of nonlinear equations in one variable

3.    Systems of linear equations

4.    Linear least squares

5.    Eigenvalue problems; SVD

6.    Interpolation and curve fitting

7.    Numerical integration and differentiation

8.    Intro to signal processing, FFTs

9.    Random numbers and simulation

 

Grading

•       Homeworks:          20 %

•       Midterm 1:           20 %

•       Midterm 2:            20 %

•       Final:                     40 %

 

Homeworks

 

•       The homeworks will involve:

–      on-paper classical problems,

–      programming,

–      MATLAB

•       MATLAB : MATrix LABoratory

•       Matrix based system for scientific and engineering calculations

•       Interactive

•       Has built-in functions for almost everything we will need in this class