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====== Math 445 Outline of topics for exam 2 ====== Everything listed on the [[gibson:teaching:spring-2015:math445:exam1topics|outline of topics for exam 1]] is fair game for exam 2. There will certainly be a few 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 will focus on programming and the algorithms we have learned in labs 6-9 * [[gibson:teaching:spring-2015:math445:lab6]] evaluating formulae involving sums and products with for loops * [[gibson:teaching:spring-2015:math445:lab7]] Newton search for solving nonlinear equations * [[gibson:teaching:spring-2015:math445:lab8]] Google page rank algorithm * [[gibson:teaching:spring-2015:math445:lab9]] Monte Carlo methods (coin flips and Presidential elections) Make sure you understand the mathematical algorithms involved in those labs, and also how the algorithms are coded in Matlab. There will probably be three or four questions on basic Matlab usage and three or four questions on programming and algorithms.
