CmpE 360 Numerical Methods

 

• Instructor: Lale Akarun, HKC 218, akarun AT boun.edu.tr

• TA: Oya Aran, aran AT cmpe.boun.edu.tr

• Course Hours: MMT 122, Place: HKD301 HKD301 M 1200

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

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

 

Topics

• Floating point numbers and arithmetic

• Solutions of nonlinear equations in one variable

• Systems of linear equations

• Linear least squares

• Eigenvalue problems; SVD

• Interpolation and curve fitting

• Numerical integration and differentiation

• Intro to signal processing, FFTs

 

Grading

• Homeworks & Quizzes:          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