Course Information

Lectures: MWF 8:00 -- 8:50 am. @ MSTB 226.

Class resources:

Math 9 Syllabus 2018F. A complete guidance of this class. Please read first. The downloadable version is at here.
Videos from 2016S by Prof. Chris Davis.
Link to an electronic copy of Matlab Guide by Desmond J. Higham and Nicholas J. Higham, the book copy can be downloaded in individual chapters. You should be able to download the electronic copy when you access the website from on-campus IP address.
Getting Started with MATLAB, Mathworks' MATLAB documentation. Basic tutorial for beginners.
MATLAB primer. An introduction to using MATLAB commands. In depth with a lot of good information for first-timers. There are several versions scattered on internet, such as second edition, and third edition.
Midterm sample exam problems. This serves as an sample for the midterm. It covers all the lectures from Lecture 1 to Lecture 10, the exam will be totally paper-based and computer-closed. The Newton's method is not required for midterm, but it is an important application in numerical analysis.
To install Mathematica on your own machine, please see the Syllabus page for instructions.
Mathematica tutorial. An elementary introduction to the wolfram language.
Modularity of Mathematica. It introduces the scopes of variables in Mathematica.
Mathematica Cookbook. A good resource for advanced topics.
Practice problem set for Mathematica is uploaded to the Files.
Practice Problem set for MATLAB is uploaded to the Files.
Sample Final. This serves as an sample for the Final. It covers all the lectures, the exam will be totally paper-based and computer-closed. The Newton's method is not required for final either.
Midtem exam.
Final exam.

Course Schedule:

Recommended Tasks:

Here is a list of recommended exercises for MATLAB scripting/functions, they are not required but useful to get familiar with coding.

Assignments:

All the homework should be submitted by a .m file or .nb with required file name. Additional requirements are described in each assignment file. Homework sample answers are in the class files, under homework directory.

Worksheets:

Worksheet for Lecture 1
Worksheet for Lecture 2
Worksheet for Lecture 3
Worksheet for Lecture 4
Worksheet for Lecture 5
Worksheet for Lecture 6
Worksheet for Lecture 7
Worksheet for Lecture 8
Worksheet for Lecture 9
Worksheet for Lecture 15
Worksheet for Lecture 16
Worksheet for Lecture 17
Worksheet for Lecture 18
Worksheet for Lecture 19
Worksheet for Lecture 20
Worksheet for Lecture 21
Worksheet for Lecture 22
Worksheet for Lecture 23
Worksheet for Lecture 24

Useful Files:

Syllabus
Lecture Note 1. Introduction to MATLAB
Lecture Note 2. Arrays and Matrices
Lecture Note 3. Scripting in MATLAB
Lecture Note 4. Basic Plots in MATLAB
Lecture Note 5. For/While loop in MATLAB
Lecture Note 6. Functions
Lecture Note 7. If Elseif Else in MATLAB
Lecture Note 8. For/While Loop II
Lecture Note 9. Complexity and Timing
Lecture Note 10. Debug in MATLAB
Lecture Note 11. Newton's method
Lecture Note 12. Review Sample Midterm Exam
Lecture Note 14. Binary Search
Lecture Note 15. Introduction to Mathematica
Lecture Note 16. Plots in Mathematica
Lecture Note 17. Functions in Mathematica
Lecture Note 18. Probability in Mathematica (worksheet required)
Lecture Note 19. Loops in Mathematica, Part I.
Lecture Note 20. Local variable
Lecture Note 21. Digits
Lecture Note 22. Newton's method (NA), see worksheet.
Lecture Note 23. Visualization of Newton/Bisection method (NA), see worksheet.
Lecture Note 24. Optimization using Newton's method. see worksheet.

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