Cheg 258 - Lecture Notes - April 26, 2000

Announcements

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