Level:
Undergraduate
Instructors:
One e=0.6 Kepler Orbit. (Image by Professor Alar Toomre.)
Course Features
Course Highlights
Perhaps
the most remarkable feature of this course was that, once again, it had
no exams. Instead, all of the grading and much of the
learning was here based on 12 weekly problem sets.
These consisted of three fairly challenging problems apiece, and were
aided not only by a textbook that we followed rather loosely but also
by frequent handouts of a numerical or graphical sort.
Course Description
This
course analyzed the basic techniques for the efficient numerical
solution of problems in science and engineering. Topics spanned root
finding, interpolation, approximation of functions, integration,
differential equations and direct and iterative methods in linear
algebra.