Math 445 Outline of topics for exam 2

Everything listed on the outline of topics for exam 1 is fair game for exam 2. There will probably be three or four questions on exam 2 that could have appeared on exam 1, such as

• accessing elements or subvectors of vectors, and elements, rows, cols, or submatrices of matrices
• elementwise operations on matrices and vectors
• logical operations
• writing and using anonymous and file-based functions

So make sure you understand these issues, and understand and correct any mistakes you made on exam 1!

The remainder of exam 2 (probably three or four more questions) will focus on programming and the algorithms we have learned in labs 6-9

• lab6 evaluating formulae involving sums and products with for loops
• lab7 Newton search for solving nonlinear equations
• lab8 Google page rank algorithm
• lab9 Monte Carlo methods (coin flips and Presidential elections)

Make sure you can write simple functions, such as those in lab 6, in correct Matlab syntax. Make sure you understand the mathematical algorithms involved in labs 7,8, and 9, and also how the algorithms are coded in Matlab.