Math171 - Fall 2021 - Alexiades
ASSIGNMENTS
b: bkbn: (bookboon) Intro to Matlab   by Krister Ahlersten,   D: Downey: Physical Modeling in MATLAB  by Allen Downey
Assigned Due Assignment Topic
class1: R Aug 19 T Aug 24 Lab1 basics of Matlab, submitting labs
b: §2,3 ,   D: §1.1-1.7
class2: T Aug 24 T Aug 31 Lab2 scripts, input(), fprintf()
D: §2.1-2.6 ,   b: Chap.8
class3: R Aug 26 W Sep 1 Lab3 arrays
b: §4.1-4.4, 5.1-5.4 ,   D: §4.5-4.8
Class5: R Sep 2 W Sep 8 Lab4 sorting, Matlab functions
if, for loop: work through   b: Chap.9, 10 ;   D: § 3.4, 4.2
Class7: R Sep 9 W Sep 15 Lab5 if, for loop, while loop
finding eps
Class9: R Sep 16 M Oct 18 Lab6 HTTP, HTML, creating a web page
Class10: T Sep 21 M Sep 27 Lab7 loops, conditionals, scripts, functions
processing grades
Class11: R Sep 23 T Oct 5 HW1 exploring the logistic function, FWHM
(on paper, turn in a copy of your work)
Class12: T Sep 28 M Oct 11 Lab8 reading file, plotting, finding FWHM of a pulse
Class14: R Oct 7 S Oct 16 Lab9 quadrature rules
Class17: T Oct 19 W Oct 27 Lab10 finding roots, bisection
Class22: R Nov 4 S Nov 13 Lab11 finding roots, Newton-Raphson
Class24: R Nov 11 S Nov 20 Lab12 fractals, Julia set
Class25: T Nov 16 S Dec 4 Lab13 fractals from Newton iterations
Class26: R Nov 18   HW2 Least Squares polynomial fitting in Matlab
Class27: T Nov 23   HW3 Least Squares fitting in Matlab
Assigned Due Assignment Topic
! The End !
... I hope you enjoyed the class and learned a lot ...

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Quizes: Quiz 1: R Sep 9 on basic Matlab, input,fprintf, scripts,functions, roundoff.
      Quiz 2: R Oct 7 on basic Matlab, arrays,scripts,functions,roundoff, plot, if, loops (not html, not internet)
      Quiz 3: R Oct 28 on basic Matlab, quadrature rules, finding roots
Final Exam: W Dec 8 10:30-12:30   Matlab, finite precision/roundoff, algorithm and coding for: quadrature, bisection, Newton-Raphson
Notes:
  • roundoff_error ← very IMPORTANT
  • about ASCII   • about IP, HTTP, HTML   • Internet history
  • useful Matlab functions   • I/O functions   • strings
  • gnuplot basics
  • Julia set
    Supplementary (enrichment) material:
  • How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented, Veritasium, excellent video, very revealing history and story, Nov.2021 ← NEW
  • Numbers limit how accurately digital computers model chaos Phys.org, Sep.2019
  • The Map of Computer Science by Dominic Walliman, Sep.2017 (excellent video)
  • The Map of Mathematics by Dominic Walliman, Feb.2017 (excellent video)
  • Thinking of a Career in Applied Mathematics?
  • Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age, Pew Research, Feb.2017   profound questions about the future...
  • Intro to mathematical modeling (5 min video)
    Current version of Gnuplot for Win32:   gp504-win32-mingw.exe ;   for Win64:   gp504-win64-mingw.exe ;   for OSX   gnuplot-5.0.5-quartz.pkg
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