Cheg 258 - Lecture Notes - April 16, 1999

Announcements

• Because of your Organic Chemistry test the homework linked into today's notes is not due, but be sure to look at the solutions! Also, the problem assigned on Wednesday will now be due on Friday after your Organic test.

Class notes

The main points of the lecture were

• Numerical Stability

Goals:

• Determine the stability of a system of differential equations.

Reading

• The class notes and Ch. 8 of Kahaner and Ch. 11 of Hanna

Questions of the Day:

• Where does the Euler Method for integration come from?
• Discuss the stability characteristics of the differential equation dy/dt = 1 + (t-1)*y over the domain t = [0,2].

Matlab Example Codes

example 31