20% VBA 1 Assessment, Week of 26 February to 1 March

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20% Written Assessment 1, 6 March

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Week 5

Lots of case studies of second order differential equations. We will also introduce methods even more accurate than Heun’s Method: the general Runge–Kutta methods.

In VBA we worked towards Heun’s Method for second order differential equations.

Week 6

We will look at the Felix Baumgartner situation before moving onto Boundary Value Problems.

In VBA you will have your assessment.

Week 7

We will continue looking at boundary value problems (in particular the Shooting Method and Goal Seek) before you have your written assessment on Wednesday.

In VBA we will finish what we are doing on Lab 4 and then look at Lab 5.

Week 8

Finish Section 1.10 and start Chapter 2.

Lab 6

Week 9

Section 2.1

Lab 7

Because every lab counts, the Bank Holiday labs of DME2A are going to be rescheduled to Tuesday: on Tuesday March 19 we will have the following:

  • DME2A, 14:40-16:20, DME2E 16:20-18:00, A285

Here on is provisional:

Week 10

Section 2.2

Lab 8 (material examinable in final assessment)

Week 11

Finish Section 2.2 and then tutorial time

Assessment

See Canvas for the assessment schedule.

Study

Study should consist of

  • doing exercises from the notes
  • completing VBA exercises

Student Resources

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