Cheg 258 - Lecture Notes - Mar. 5, 1999

Announcements

Class notes

The main points of the lecture were

• Systems of Non-Linear Equations

Goals:

• Solve a system of non-linear equations using Newton's method.

Reading

• The class notes and Chapter 7 of Kahaner and Hanna.

Question of the Day:

• Name two examples of where you might want to solve systems of non-linear equations.
• Why might the Jacobian of a system of equations be singular? What does it mean physically?

Matlab Example Codes

example 20