Department of
Mathematics
University of Colorado at Denver
This web page http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jmandel/classes/5661s04 serves as the class syllabus and source of further information.
Important announcements will be put here during the
semester. It is a good idea to check this space regularly before the class of
before you want to come to my office.
I plan to be at my office hours as usual from now on. Answers to homework 8
are posted, linked from class notes. I will do course evaluations on Monday May
3 unless there are absences, in which case I may postpone the evaluations to
Wednesday May 5.
Textbook: D. Kincaid and W. Cheney, Numerical
Analysis, 3rd ed., Brooks/Cole Publ., 2002
Time and location: Monday and Wednesday 4:00-5:15 SI 220
Office hours: UCD building 640 Monday 2:30-3:45, Wednesday 1:30-3:45. I am also
available at other times, ask.
Contact: Phone 303-556-4475; email jmandel@math.cudenver.edu.
I am usually pretty good at answering email even at off hours.
The objectives of the class are to understand
Material to be covered:
The progress of the class will be recorded and homework assigments available in the class notes file. In-class computer demonstrations (and there will be many of them) will be in the matlab directory. Much of the material, and in particular anything where I cover things differently than in the texbook, will be in my Lecture notes . There will be a midterm and final, and homework assignments most Wednesdays, due the following Wednesday. The midterm will be on March 10. The final will be on May 10 or 12 as determined by the Auraria finals schedule. You cannot use any books, computers, or notes at the exams, except for one 3" by 5" card wher you can write anything you want. The final score will be computed as
1/2(A+B+C- min(A,B,C))
where A=homework assignments, B=midterm, C=final, each scaled separately from 0 to 100. Assignments and exams will be graded on the scale 0 to 4: 4=OK, 3=minor error, 2=significant progress, 1=some progress, 0=no progress, wrong problem, or misunderstood problem. The letter grades will be A >= 90, A- >= 85, B+ >= 80, B >= 75, B- >=70, C+ >= 65, C >= 60, C- >= 55, D+ >= 50, D >= 45, D- >= 40.
Homeworks will be considered on time if they are turned in on the due date at the beginning of the class or left at my office at least half an hour before the class time. I cannot accept homeworks by email (too many different formats) but if you cannot make the class you can fax your homework to 303-556-8550 and alert me by email, again at least half hour before the class begins. Late homeworks get 1/2 of the credit unless arranged with me in advance. There will be no makeup exams or extra credit; the grading scheme works in such a way that if you do not do well on one of the exams or on the homeworks, you can still get a very good grade.
I enjoy discussing technical topics related to the class with my students during my office hours or any other time you walk in, but please do your homeworks ahead of time, and try not to come to my office right before the homework is due and expect me to do it for you.
Computer assignments must be turned in as file on our server, math.cudenver.edu. Assignments must be done in Matlab except for some assignments involving libraries, which will require Fortran or C. Most Matlab assignments can be done by simply editing M-files without any graphics; for graphics or to use the Matlab GUI, please use the Graduate Lab on 6th floor of the UCD building. For every assignment, turn in a complete printout of the program and of the output, and prepare a directory named 5661 in your home directory on math, then in the directory 5661 make directory hw1 for assignment 1, etc.. Your homework directory should contain a working code and any relevant data that was used to produce your printout. All code should be run from a single command named go (file go.m for Matlab, script named go containing all required compile and run commands otherwise) that produces exactly the same output that you turn in as a hardcopy. The program has to run on math and be in the specified directory to receive any credit for the computer project. You can prepare the assignment using another computer, such as a PC running Matlab (these are available in the undergraduate lab, SI 130, or you may purchase a student version of Matlab available at the campus bookstore for your own PC), but you must copy the files to math in the correct place and test that they run.
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