Cheg 258 - Lecture Notes - April 4, 2001
Announcements
- There is no homework assigned today. Good luck on the exam next Wednesday!
- As was discussed last Friday, in view of your test in Thermo this week the
problem due today (problem 25) has been cancelled. You need to run the
solution, however, to see how regression, quadrature, and error propagation
all combine to solve a practical problem!
Class notes
Scanned Notes
The main points of the lecture were
Goals:
After this lecture you should be able to:
- Know when to use an adaptive quadrature routine.
- Integrate functions on semi-infinite and infinite domains by mapping or
truncation.
Reading
- The class notes and Chapter 5 of Kahaner and Chapter 11 of Recktenwald.
Questions of the Day
- How would you implement an adaptive quadrature routine with the Gauss-
Kronod rules?
- Will the mapping [0,inf] - > [0,1] via the transformation x = - log(t) be a
good one for all functions being integrated over a semi-infinite domain? What
other mappings are there?
Matlab Example Codes
example 27
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