Lecture 1 



The first lecture of CISC-271 was used for introductions.

The agenda is roughly:

Administration
Course organization and administration, homeworks, tests, grading scheme.

Scientific Computing
We looked at a very simplified overview of the the process involved in solving mathematical "Real World Problems". We then looked at a mathematical problem related to biomedical computing. According to the way we modelled the problem we needed to determine the equation of a quadratic function, and then determine where a line crosses the function.

Here is the actual code we used. A good excercise would be to try this out and duplicate the results I got.

X = [0 .5 1]
Y= [0 120 0]

P = polyfit(X,Y,2)

xc = linspace(0,1);
yc = polyval(P,xc);

plot(xc,yc, xc, 90)

P(3) = -90

roots(P)
 

Posted: Mon - September 11, 2006 at 01:50 PM          


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