Cheg 258 - Lecture Notes - April 19, 1999

Announcements

The assignment linked into today's notes is due a week from Wednesday.

Class notes

The main points of the lecture were

• Implicit Integration Methods

Goals:

• Determine the stability of a system of equations.
• Know the difference between implicit and explicit solution techniques.

Reading

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

Questions of the Day:

• What is the system of first order ODE's corresponding to the 2nd order damped pendulum ODE?
• Are implicit techniques useful for unstable ODE's?

Matlab Example Codes

example 31

example 31a