Course Features
Course Highlights
This course features a full set of
lecture notes and an extensive set of supplementary files. The course also includes
assignments as well as a sample
exam.
Course Description
This course is offered to undergraduates and introduces students to the
formulation, methodology, and techniques for numerical solution of
engineering problems. Topics covered include: fundamental principles of
digital computing and the implications for algorithm accuracy and
stability, error propagation and stability, the solution of systems of
linear equations, including direct and iterative techniques, roots of
equations and systems of equations, numerical interpolation,
differentiation and integration, fundamentals of finite-difference
solutions to ordinary differential equations, and error and convergence
analysis. The subject is taught the first half of the term.
This subject was originally offered in Course 13 (Department of
Ocean Engineering) as 13.002J. In 2005, ocean engineering became part
of Course 2 (Department of Mechanical Engineering), and this subject
was renumbered 2.993J.
Technical Requirements
Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .m.