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Reading Assignments
| Week Of |
Textbook Sections |
Notes |
| Aug. 21–25 |
7.1–7.3, 8.1–8.3, 8.6 |
Chap. 7 readings mostly for review. |
| Aug. 28–Sep. 1 |
8.2, 8.3, 8.6, 8.16 |
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| Sep. 4–8 |
8.4, 8.5, 8.16, 8.8 |
Secs. 8.4 & 8.5 mostly for background & review. |
| Sep. 11–15 |
8.8–8.12, Supp. 1
| 1: "Constrained Least-Squares Optimization Using Minimized
Coefficient Magnitudes";
Skim Secs. 8.9 and 8.11 |
| Sep. 18–22 |
8.10–8.13, Supps. 1–3
| Skim Sec. 8.11
Mathworks Help Center documentation on factorizations
2: SVD readings from Numerical Recipes in C
3: "The Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra" (optional) |
| Sep. 25–29 |
Chap. 1, 2.1–2.5
3.1, 3.3, 3.6, 3.8, 3.9
7.6 |
Skim Chaps. 1 & 2 (mostly for review).
Selected parts of Chap. 3 covered in lectures.
Sec. 7.6 is an important review of vector spaces. |
| Oct. 2–6 |
Chap. 5, Supps. 4 & 5
12.1, 12.2 |
Skim Secs. 5.1 & 5.2
4: "Series Solution Method for ODEs"
5: "Meet the Bessels"
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| Oct. 9–13 |
12.1–12.3, 12.5 |
[no class or lab on Oct. 9] |
| Oct. 16–20 |
12.1–12.3, 12.5,
Supp. 6 |
[Midterm Exam Oct. 16];
6: "Sturm-Liouville Problems: Eigenfunction Orthogonality"
(optional) |
| Oct. 23–27 |
Secs. 13.1–13.4 |
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| Oct. 30–Nov. 3 |
13.4, 13.5 |
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| Nov. 6–10 |
14.2, Supp. 7, 6.5, 16.2 |
7: "D'Alembert's Solution of the 1-D Wave Equation Problem
in Unbounded Media";
Read Sec. 6.5 up to first example. |
| Nov. 13–17 |
16.3, Supp. 8 |
8: "Open Boundaries in the Finite Difference Solution of the
1-D Wave Equation" |
| Nov. 27–Dec. 1 |
16.2, Supp. 9 |
9: "Neumann Boundary Conditions in the Explicit Finite
Difference Solution of the 1-D Heat Equation" |
| Dec. 4 |
[No new reading] |
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Notes:
- The section numbers specified above refer to the 6th edition of the textbook
by D. G. Zill.
- All supplemental readings are available at the course Moodle site.
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