Math 405/607E 2017 W1: Numerical Methods for Differential Equations

Instructor: Colin Macdonald
Email:: cbm [at] math ubc ca
Office: LSK 303c
Lectures:: Tu/Th 14:00–15:20, rm 104, Math Bldg
Office Hours: Monday 1:00--2:00pm, Wednesday 12:15--1:00pm, Thurs 3:30--4:30pm (subject to change, also by appointment)
Midterm:: Oct 26th, in class
Exam:: Dec 18th, noon

Week 1: Sept 7

Outline

No lecture Sept 5.

01_intro.pdf, hw1.pdf.

demo_01.m.

git repo at gitlab.math.ubc.ca for this course.

Week 2: Sept 12

Notes on topic 2, root finding and optimization.

demo_02_bisection.m, demo_02_newton.m.

In future, demos might be posted on git only (see link above).

Week 3, Week 4

Notes: 03_interp.pdf, 04_quadrature.pdf, 04b_composite_quad.pdf.

Notes: 06a_intro_ivp.pdf, 06b_ivp.pdf, 07a_pdes_mol.pdf, 07b_pdes_adv_2d.pdf.

Notice: most material for this class is now appearing on canvas.ubc.ca and the Math Dept GitLab server. I may or may not maintain this page.

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