Semester :  Spring 2011 – 2012

Instructor :  Instructor Dr. Özlem Defterli  (Home Page)

Office: R220 - New Campus   Phone: (312) 2331427    

E-mail:  defterli@cankaya.edu.tr

Schedule:  Tuesday 17:40-20:30 (Central Campus, Block A-302)
Office Hours :  To be announced!
Catalog Description : Gaussian elimination and its variants. Sensitivity of linear systems. Orthogonal matrices and the least squares problem. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The singular value decomposition. Solutions of Partial differential equations, solution of system of equations, Examples of time dependent events, and their solutions. Applications with MATLAB / Java.

Textbook :  W. Cheney, D. Kincaid, Numerical Methods and Computing, Sixth Edition, Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2007

Evaluation Criteria :  Midterm: 30%, Term Project: 20% ,

Attendance : 5% ,  Final Exam : 45%

Exam Dates :        Midterm Exam:
                               Final Exam:  

Reference Books : 

§        A. Kharab-R. B. Guenther, An Introduction to Numerical Methods, A MATLAB Approach, Second Edition, Chapman&Hall/CRC, 2006.
§        R.L. Burden- J.D. Faires, Numerical Analysis, Eight Edition, Brooks-Cole, 2001
§        J. H. Mathews-K. D. Fink, Numerical Methods using MATLAB, Pearson Prentice Hall,2004.
§        C. Moler, Numerical Computing with MATLAB, 2004. (http://www.mathworks.com/moler/chapters.html)
§        A. Gilat, Matlab, An Introduction with Applications, Third Edition, 2008.
§        M. Heath, Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey, Mc-Graw Hill,2002.
§        W. W. Hager, Applied Numerical Algebra, Prentice Hall, 1988.