gibson:teaching:fall-2014:math445
MATH 445: Mathematics and Applications with Matlab
Lecture: Tue, Thu 8:40-9:30am Kingsbury S145
Lab: Tue, Thu 9:40-11:30am Kingsbury N139
Instructor: John Gibson, Kingsbury N309. Office hours: lab (preferred), Mon 12-1pm & Tue 2-3pm (backup)
Teaching Assistant: Jamie Spears. Office hours: TBD
Prerequisite: Math 418 or equivalent.
Recommended Text: Matlab: A Practical Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving, S. Attaway, any edition.
Additional References: Numerical Computing with Matlab, C. Moler; and
Experiments with Matlab, C. Moler.
Download Matlab: UNH academic software (note: requires network license via UNH VPN)
Policies on grades, homeworks, labs, exams, etc.
Course outline and schedule.
Example of what to turn in for a lab question
| lecture | topic | notes | reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 09/02 | matlab basics | diary | 1.1-4 in textbook |
| Thu 09/04 | more basics, vectors and matrices | diary | 1.5-6, 2.1-3 |
| Tue 09/09 | systems of eqns: the Ax=b problem | diary | 2.4 |
| Thu 09/11 | large matrices, scripts | diary, solveAfb.m script | 3.2 |
| Tue 09/16 | array operations, plotting | diary | 2.3, 3.5-6 |
| Thu 09/18 | logical arrays, log-linear relations | diary | |
| Tue 10/07 | functions, if statements | diary | 3.1-4, 3.7 |
| Thu 10/09 | if-elseif-else and switch statements | diary | 4.1-4 |
| Tue 10/14 | for loops | diary | 5.1-2 |
| Thu 10/16 | more for | diary | |
| Tue 11/18 | 3D graphics | diary |
| lab | due | topic |
|---|---|---|
| lab1 | Tue 09/09 | matlab basics |
| lab2 | Tue 09/16 | linear algebra, the truss |
| lab3 | Thu 09/25 | graphical data analysis |
| lab4 | Tue 10/27 | solving nonlinear equations with Newton's method |
| lab5 | Tue 11/18 | Google Page Rank |
| lab6 | Thu 11/20 | 3D graphics |
| lab7 | Thu 12/04 | the pendulum |
| lab8 | Thu 12/11 | home run |
| homework | due | topic | solutions |
|---|---|---|---|
| hw1 | Thu 09/11 | matlab basics, vectors and matrices | hw1solns |
| hw2 | Tue 09/23 | array operations and plotting basics | hw2solns |
| hw3 | Thu 10/02 | cumulative exam prep | hw3solns |
| hw4 | Tue 10/14 | functions, if-else | hw4solns |
| hw5 | Tue 10/21 | for loops |
| exam | date | topics | review material | results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| exam 1 | Thu 10/02 | basics, vectors & matrices, plotting | vocabulary, sample problems, sample exam | results |
| exam 2 | Thu 10/30 | programming | vocabulary,sample problems, sample problem solutions | |
| final | Thu 12/18 8-10am | comprehensive | vocabulary |
Readings
- The Year We Got Creeped out by Algorithms, Zeynep Tufekci, Nieman Lab, Universoty of North Carolina.
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