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I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

Manuals

The manuals are available in the Reprographic/Copy Centre. Please purchase ASAP.

Week 1

In week one we spoke in general terms about curve fitting. We introduced Lagrange Interpolation and started talking about Least Squares curve fitting. We did one example where we fitted a line to some Carbon Dioxide Data.

Week 2

In Week 2 we will continue talking about Least Squares Curve Fitting.

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I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

Week 12

Week 13

We will go through the sample exam on the board and then I will answer your questions if there are any. If there are none I will help one-to-one.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email or even better on this webpage — especially those of us who struggled in the test.

More Exam questions can be found as follows. Google “CIT Exam Papers” and press the first entry. Go down to Mathematics.

• 2014 Semester 2 — MATH7021 — Q.1(a)
• 2014 Semester 1 — MATH7019 — Q.1, 2, 3(c)
• 2013 Semester 2 — MATH7021 — Q.1(a) [you only have TWO methods], 2(b)
• 2013 Semester 1 — MATH7021 — Q.1(a), 2(b)
• 2013 Semester 1 — MATH7019 — Q.1(a), 2(a)-(b), 3(c), 4(a)-(c)
• 2013 Autumn — MATH7019 — Q.1(a), 2, 4(a)-(d)
• 2013 Autumn — MATH7021 — Q.1(a), 2(b)
• 2012 Semester 2 — MATH7019 — Q.1 [(a) & (b) should be +M not -M], 2, 4(b)

Student Resources

Student Resources are now collated at the Student Resources tab on the top of this page.

I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

Week 11

Week 12

Wednesday we will spend an hour on sampling theory and then look at hypothesis testing. Hopefully all will be completed and we have Friday free. On Friday you will do Q.4 on the sample while I give feedback on your second assignments.

Week 13

We will go through the sample exam on the board and then I will answer your questions if there are any. If there are none I will help one-to-one.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email or even better on this webpage — especially those of us who struggled in the test.

More Exam questions can be found as follows. Google “CIT Exam Papers” and press the first entry. Go down to Mathematics.

• 2014 Semester 2 — MATH7021 — Q.1(a)
• 2014 Semester 1 — MATH7019 — Q.1, 2, 3(c)
• 2013 Semester 2 — MATH7021 — Q.1(a) [you only have TWO methods], 2(b)
• 2013 Semester 1 — MATH7021 — Q.1(a), 2(b)
• 2013 Semester 1 — MATH7019 — Q.1(a), 2(a)-(b), 3(c), 4(a)-(c)
• 2013 Autumn — MATH7019 — Q.1(a), 2, 4(a)-(d)
• 2013 Autumn — MATH7021 — Q.1(a), 2(b)
• 2012 Semester 2 — MATH7019 — Q.1 [(a) & (b) should be +M not -M], 2, 4(b)

Student Resources

Student Resources are now collated at the Student Resources tab on the top of this page.

I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

Assignment 2

…will hopefully be corrected relatively quickly. I won’t make any promises though.

Week 11

We will look at the normal distribution and begin looking at sampling theory.

Sample Exam

I will draft a sample exam and we will probably go through it in Week 13. I hope to get it done by the end of next week and I recommend that you try it before Week 13 comes along.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email or even better on this webpage — especially those of us who struggled in the test.

Student Resources

Student Resources are now collated at the Student Resources tab on the top of this page.

I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

‘Skipped Material’

I sent ye the partial derivatives examples that I didn’t finish off.

Later on I will send ye on a completed Figure 3.22.

The differentials examples that I didn’t do are not examinable.

The rounding error examples, which are not examinable, may be found here.

Assignment 2

Has been sent to you. Please read the emails carefully — especially those regarding the various typos. The hand-up date is this Friday 21 November.

Week 10

We will make a start on the last chapter: Probability & Statistics.

Sample Exam

To guard against complacency I will draft a sample exam that we will sit on Friday 28 November in Week 11 or Friday 5 December in Week 12. This will be a tough paper that will give ye an indication of where ye are sitting before the final stages of study.

If we sit it in Week 11 it will contain less statistics but will be corrected by me and we will do the Autumn 2014 paper in Week 13. If we can’t sit it until Week 12 we will go through it in Week 13.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email or even better on this webpage — especially those of us who struggled in the test.

Student Resources

Student Resources are now collated at the Student Resources tab on the top of this page.

I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

Assignment 2

Has been sent to you. Please read the emails carefully — especially those regarding the various typos. The hand-up date is Friday 21 November.

We finished off talking about Maclaurin Series and spoke about more general Taylor Series near . Then we will started the section on the numerical solution of differential equations that we need for the second assignment.

Week 9

We will finish off the section on the numerical solution of differential equations that we need for the second assignment by going through the Three Term Taylor Method. Then we will get into the applications of partial differentiation to multivariable Taylor Series () and error analysis.

Sample Exam

To guard against complacency I will draft a sample exam that we will sit on Friday 28 November in Week 11 or Friday 5 December in Week 12. This will be a tough paper that will give ye an indication of where ye are sitting before the final stages of study.

If we sit it in Week 11 it will contain less statistics but will be corrected by me and we will do the Autumn 2014 paper in Week 13. If we can’t sit it until Week 12 we will go through it in Week 13.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email or even better on this webpage — especially those of us who struggled in the test.

Student Resources

Student Resources are now collated at the Student Resources tab on the top of this page.

I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

Assignment 2

Has been sent to you. Please read the emails carefully — especially those regarding the various typos. The hand-up date is Friday 21 November.

In Week 7 we finished our study of beams by looking at cantilevers. Then we began the third chapter on Taylor Series. We started by looking at Maclaurin Series.

Week 8

We will finish off talking about Maclaurin Series and talk about more general Taylor Series near . Then we will start the section on the numerical solution of differential equations that we need for the second assignment.

Assignment 1

I will do out the solutions and send them to you at some stage next week.

To guard against complacency I will draft a sample exam that we will sit on Friday 28 November in Week 11 or Friday 5 December in Week 12. This will be a tough paper that will give ye an indication of where ye are sitting before the final stages of study.

If we sit it in Week 11 it will contain less statistics but will be corrected by me and we will do the Autumn 2014 paper in Week 13. If we can’t sit it until Week 12 we will go through it in Week 13.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email or even better on this webpage — especially those of us who struggled in the test.

Student Resources

Student Resources are now collated at the Student Resources tab on the top of this page.

I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

Assignment 1

These have been corrected and the results have been emailed to you. I will do out the solutions and send them to you at 8.45 pm on Friday 31 October. At 10 am that morning I will give ye individual feedback on your projects while ye try some cantilever questions.

To guard against complacency I will draft a sample exam that we will sit on Friday 28 November in Week 11 or Friday 5 December in Week 12. This will be a tough paper that will give ye an indication of where ye are sitting before the final stages of study.

If we sit it in Week 11 it will contain less statistics but will be corrected by me and we will do the Autumn 2014 paper in Week 13. If we can’t sit it until Week 12 we will go through it in Week 13.

Assignment 2

I should be able to complete this on Friday 24 October and will email it to ye then. Assignment 2 will have a hand-in date in Week 10 and will be concerned with beam equations — both their exact solution as has been studied by us lately and also numerical/approximate solutions as will be explored in Chapter 3.

In Week 6 we continued with the second chapter on Differential Equations — with a particular emphasis on Beam Equations.

Week 7

We will finish off our study of beams by looking at cantilevers in the first class on Wednesday. Then we will begin the third chapter on Taylor Series.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email or even better on this webpage — especially those of us who struggled in the test.

Student Resources

Student Resources are now collated at the Student Resources tab on the top of this page.

I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

Assignment 1

I haven’t started correcting these and won’t make a promise about when they will be done but will be done sooner rather than later.

Manuals

The manuals are priced at  €14 and are available in the Reprographic Centre.

Week 5

In Week 5 we continued with the second chapter on Differential Equations — with a particular emphasis on Beam Equations.

Week 6

In Week 6 we will continue and hopefully finish the second chapter on Differential Equations — with a particular emphasis on Beam Equations.

Assignment 2

Assignment 2 will have a hand-in date in Week 10. Expect to see the assignment around Week 7.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email or even better on this webpage — especially those of us who struggled in the test.

Student Resources

Student Resources are now collated at the Student Resources tab on the top of this page.

I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

Assessment 1

Assessment 1 has been emailed to all of you. The hand in date in Friday 17 October. Late handed in late shall be assigned a mark of zero.

Repeat Students — particularly EXAM ONLY

There have been some changes made to MATH7019

– Second Order Linear Ordinary Differential Equations have been moved to MATH7021 and are no longer studied in MATH7019

 – The chapter on Curve Fitting from MATH7021 has been introduced into MATH7019 however forward difference methods have been dropped altogether. The correlation coefficient has been added to this chapter. This material is being done first and will be completed by or in Week 3.

 – Cantilevers have been added to the section on beam equations

 – Regarding the chapter on Further Calculus, reviews of calculus topics have been spread out throughout the module

 – No change to the chapter on Statistics

To find out the exact syllabus please consult the module descriptor.  

Manuals

The manuals are priced at  €14 and are available in the Reprographic Centre.

Week 4

In Week 4 we continued with the second chapter on Differential Equations — with a particular emphasis on Beam Equations.

Week 5

In Week 5 we will continue with second chapter on Differential Equations — with a particular emphasis on Beam Equations.

Quick Test: Academic Learning Centre

I would urge anyone having any problems with material that isn’t being addressed in the tutorials to use the Academic Learning Centre. As you can see the timetable is quite generous. You will get best results if you come to the helpers there with specific questions.

Based on the results of the Quick Test, I have already advised some of ye to attend the Academic Learning Centre.

Assessment 2

Assessment 2 will have a hand-in date in Week 10. Expect to see the assignment around Week 7.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email or even better on this webpage — especially those of us who struggled in the test.

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