Cheg 258 - Lecture Notes - April 26, 1999

Announcements

• The assignment linked into today's notes consists of review questions for the exam. You should finish them before the review session on Monday, May 3 at 6:00PM!

Class notes

The main points of the lecture were

• Matrix Methods for Linear ODE's

Goals:

• Solve boundary value problems using the shooting method.
• Construct matrix approximations to linear differential equations.

Reading

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

Questions of the Day

• What Matlab functions are useful in applying the shooting method?
• Are matrix methods useful for non-linear ODE's?

Matlab Example Codes