FINAL EXAMINATION

To be held on Wednesday, December 13, 9:45 AM-11:45 AM in room 210 MLH. Comprehensive exam on the whole semester class. Bring a calculator. The final examination will be done with open books and open notes.

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Syllabus.
• Course pack: My class notes are available as a course pack at the IMU bookstore for $12.65.
• Textbook (complement, recommended): Elementary numerical analysis by Ken Atkinson and Weimin Han, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 3rd edition, 2004, 576 pages, ISBN: 0-471-43337-3, list price: $118.95. Table of Contents. The book on amazon.com. Library reference: MATH QA297 .A83 2004. This book is intended to be a complement giving a different view of the material.
• A lot of useful information (especially the lectures section) and some GUIs from Ken Atkinson.
• Help Page for the Division of Mathematical Sciences and Getting Started in the Division of Mathematical Sciences You can find some information about Unix there.
• Some teaching materials, software and links (including some Matlab links) from the University of Dundee.
• Mathtools.net: a technical computing portal for scientific and engineering needs.
• A definition of numerical analysis (ps) as discussed by L. N. Trefethen.
• An Overview of Numerical Analysis (pdf) as discussed by Kendall Atkinson.

MATLAB

• Free electronic textbook Numerical Computing with MATLAB by Cleve Moler himself!, the founder of Matlab.
• Matlab Help is available directly from the Help menu of the Matlab window.
• A Very Elementary MATLAB Tutorial, MATLAB Tutorials from Other Universities, MATLAB & Simulink Tutorials, MATLAB Homework Helper, all presented by Mathworks, Inc., producers of Matlab.
• Some Matlab tutorials from Edward Neuman
• Matlab tutorial - University of New Hampshire
• Matlab tutorial - US Naval Academy
• Matlab tutorial - University of British Columbia
• Matlab tutorial - University of Florida
• Matlab tutorial - University of California at Los Angeles
• MATLAB Online Reference Documentation provides direct hypertext links to specific MATLAB function descriptions (from the Math Dept, University of Florida).
• Matlab Primer (ps) (for an earlier version of Matlab)
• Matlab 5 introduction (ps, see also html)
• MATLAB Guide by D. J. Higham and N. J. Higham, SIAM, Philadelphia, 2005 (ENGINEERING QA297 .H5217 2005)
• Introduction to Engineering Programming: in C, MATLAB and JAVA by Mark A. Austin.

FORTRAN

• Type "man f90" on Unix workstations for information on how to compile
• A list of Fortran tutorials, Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 programmer.

COMPUTER LABORATORY

• Divisional Studio Classroom and HP Computer Lab. This lab is in room B5 of MLH.

UNIX CLASS ACCOUNTS

• Selected Unix commands.
• Class directory: /group/class/m07201.
• Class submit directory: /group/submit/m07201.
• Group you belong to and class mailing list: m07201.
• If you do not know your password go to 303A MLH.
• Accounts for students who are not majors within the Division of Mathematical Sciences will be deleted after the term has ended! Note the expiration date at the top of your Unix Account Information form.
• The directory for this class will be removed before the beginning of the next term! If there is anything in this directory that you would like to save, you must archive it to your own home directory.

GRADER

• Ted Wendt, 25N MLH, Tel. 335-3719, e-mail: twendt@math.uiowa.edu.

ASSIGNMENTS/HOMEWORK

1. hmwk1.ps, hmwk1.pdf due 09/06/06.
2. hmwk2.ps, hmwk2.pdf due 09/13/06.
3. hmwk3.ps, hmwk3.pdf due 09/20/06.
4. hmwk4.ps, hmwk4.pdf due 09/27/06.
5. hmwk5.ps, hmwk5.pdf due 10/04/06.
6. hmwk6.ps, hmwk6.pdf due 10/18/06.
7. hmwk7.ps, hmwk7.pdf due 10/25/06.
8. hmwk8.ps, hmwk8.pdf due 11/01/06.
9. hmwk9.ps, hmwk9.pdf due 11/08/06.
10. hmwk10.ps, hmwk10.pdf due 11/15/06.
11. hmwk11.ps, hmwk11.pdf due 11/27/06.
12. hmwk12.ps, hmwk12.pdf due 12/06/06.

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