Cheg 258 - Computer Methods for Chemical Engineers

Syllabus

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Office Hours

Instructor

D. T. Leighton. Click here to send email.
Office hours are 4:00 - 5:00 pm MWThF, Room 179 Fitzpatrick Hall.

Teaching Assistants

Razima Souleimanova. Click here to send email.
Office hours are 11:00 am - 12:00 pm T Th, Room 122 Cushing.
Mike King. Click here to send email.
Office hours are 1:30 - 2:30 pm , 4:30 - 5:30 pm W, Lab A68 Fitzpatrick.

Matlab and Unix consulting / CHEG 258 Web Administrator

Jason Keith Click here to send email.
Office hours are 9:30 am - 10:30 am M F, Lab A68 Fitzpatrick (or in Fitz Cluster)

On-Line Help

Last Year's Notes (1996)

Last Year's Notes .

Class Notes

Jan. 15, 1997 - Introduction

Jan. 17, 1997 - What are Numerical Methods?

Jan. 20, 1997 - Numerical Errors

Jan. 20, 1997 - Matlab Tutorial

Jan. 22, 1997 - Overflow, Underflow, and Ill-Conditioned Problems

Jan. 24, 1997 - Systems of Equations

Jan. 27, 1997 - PLU Factorization

Jan. 29, 1997 - Condition Numbers, Norms, and Errors

Jan. 31, 1997 - Linear Regression

Feb. 03, 1997 - The Normal Equations

Feb. 05, 1997 - QR Factorization

Feb. 07, 1997 - Degenerate Matrices

Feb. 10, 1997 - Singular Value Decomposition

Feb. 12, 1997 - Elementary Statistics and Probability

Feb. 14, 1997 - Error Propagation

Feb. 17, 1997 - Error Propagation in Complex Functions

Feb. 19, 1997 - The Covariance Matrix

Feb. 21, 1997 - Error Propagation in Linear Regression

Feb. 24, 1997 - Regression Error and Analysis

Feb. 26, 1997 - First Hour Exam

Feb. 28, 1997 - Undersampling and the Bootstrap

Mar. 03, 1997 - Root Finding in Non-Linear Equations

Mar. 05, 1997 - Newton's and Secant Methods

Mar. 07, 1997 - Systems of Non-Linear Equations

Mar. 10, 1997 - Mid-Semester Break

Mar. 12, 1997 - Mid-Semester Break

Mar. 14, 1997 - Mid-Semester Break

Mar. 17, 1997 - One-Dimensional Optimization

Mar. 19, 1997 - Multi-Dimensional Optimization

Mar. 21, 1997 - Constrained Optimization

Mar. 24, 1997 - Numerical Quadrature

Mar. 26, 1997 - Gaussian Quadrature

Mar. 28, 1997 - Good Friday - Easter Holiday

Mar. 31, 1997 - Easter Monday - Easter Holiday

Apr. 02, 1997 - Gaussian Quadrature

Apr. 04, 1997 - Quadrature Error Estimation

Apr. 07, 1997 - Adaptive Quadrature

Apr. 09, 1997 - Second Hour Exam

Apr. 11, 1997 - Multidimensional Quadrature and Mapping

Apr. 14, 1997 - Monte Carlo Integration

Apr. 16, 1997 - Ordinary Differential Equations

Apr. 18, 1997 - Numerical Stability

Apr. 21, 1997 - Implicit Integration Methods

Apr. 23, 1997 - Higher Order Integration Methods

Apr. 25, 1997 - Adaptive Step Size Algorithms and the Shooting Method

Apr. 28, 1997 - Matrix Methods for Linear ODE's

Apr. 30, 1997 - Sturm-Liouville Boundary Value Problems

Homework Assignments

These are links to the homeworks organized by due date. Click on a highlighted date to access the homework due that day.

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Example Problem Index

   Cheg 258 Example Index

 
Examinations


 Hour Exam 1  February 26, 1997 
 Hour Exam 2  April 9, 1997  
 Hour Exam 3  Wed May 7, 1997 8:00-10:00 AM
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