Math 370: Worksheets (Fall 2000)

There will be an archive of the daily class formats (worksheets) available in PDF on this page. The worksheets are intended as a guide to the course material as the class proceeds.

Class 1: Fri Aug 30	Machine Representation of Numbers
Class 2: Fri Sep 06	Machine Representation of Numbers (reprise)
Class 3: Mon Sep 09	Floating Point Numbers and Round Off-Errors
Class 4: Wed Sep 11	Sequences, Order of Convergence and "big Oh" notation
Class 5: Fri Sep 13	Taylor Series Approximation and Order of Convergence for Functions
Class 6: Mon Sep 16	Introduction to MATLAB
Class 7: Wed Sep 18	Introduction to MATLAB Programming
Class 8: Fri Sep 20	MATLAB programming continues
Class 9: Mon Sep 23	Rates of Convergence of Sequences
Class 10: Wed Sep 25	Rates of Convergence of Sequences
Class 11: Fri Sep 27	Picard Iteration
Class 12: Mon Sep 30	Introduction to Root Finding
Class 13: Wed Oct 2	False Position Method
Class 14: Fri Oct 4	Newton's Method and Secant Method
Class 15: Mon Oct 7	Exam 1 Review
Class 16: Wed Oct 16	Exam 1 Report Comparison of Rootfinding Methods
Class 17: Fri Oct 18	Comparison of Rootfinding Methods
Class 18: Mon Oct 21	Introduction to Nonlinear Systems of Equations
Class 19: Wed Oct 23	Iterative Solution Methods for Nonlinear Systems of Equations
Class 20: Fri Oct 25	Iterative Solution Methods for Nonlinear Systems of Equations (continued)
Class 21: Mon Oct 28	Iterative Methods for Linear Systems of Equations
Class 22: Wed Oct 30	Analysis of Iterative Methods for Linear Systems of Equations
Class 23: Fri Nov 1	Analysis of Iterative Methods for Linear Systems of Equations (continued)
Class 24: Mon Nov 4	The Successive Over-Relaxation Method
Class 25: Wed Nov 6	Review for Exam 2
Class 26: Fri Nov 8	Exam 2
Class 27: Mon Nov 4	Introduction to Approximation Theory