15% Assignment 1

This can be started. This has a provisional hand in time and date of 10:45 Thursday 22 February. Please see Canvas.

Week 3

We finished Chapter 1 on Wednesday by looking at applications to temperature distribution, where the Jacobi Method is used to find approximate solutions to a diagonally dominant linear system.

If you want a deep dive into the temperature of a plate stuff there is a post here which explains — in great detail — how the ‘iterations’ are actually physically meaningful.

We had four classes of tutorials — Monday, the BH pre-catch up, and the Thursday double. We should be well and truly prepped for Assignment 1.

Gaussian Elimination Tutor

If you download Maple (see Student Resources), there is a Maple Tutor that is easy to use and will help you with Gaussian Elimination. Open up Maple and go to Tools -> Tutors -> Linear Algebra -> Gaussian Elimination.

Week 4

We are now going to push to complete Chapter 2 over the next two weeks. Any remaining classes will be given over to tutorial time on Chapter 2.

If there is full attendance on Wednesday we might do a Chapter 1 “concept MCQ”.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email or even better on this webpage.

Student Resources

Please see the Student Resources tab on the top of this page for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc..