Readings for Week 1.
Key:
Ell = Randy Ellis,
Scientific Computing
Notes
Rec = Gerald
Recktenwald, Numerical Methods with
Matlab
Rec Chapter 2
is a nice introduction to the interactive usage of Matlab. I would suggest that
your first reading of this chapter can be done quickly, skipping over the
details. You can always refer to this section when you need
it.
Rec Chapter 5
scetions 5.1 and 5.2 goes over much of what I did today. Read it in detail as a
support for your lecture
notes.
Ell classes 2,3,4
cover floating point issues. The most relevant part to read are subsection
FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS in Class 2 pages 7-10. I didn't go over base conversion
methods. Most of you have probably seen this in a prior course. Furthermore,
this is really not central to the rest of the course. I did an abridged version
of class 3 when discussing arithmetic error. Thus you can safely skip this
chapter.
Class 4 on error
propagation discusses more that I am willing to do on this topic at this point
of the course. Again reading this chapter is up to you and not required.
Posted: Mon - September 11, 2006 at 04:19 PM