Homework

	Week1:
	Read Ch 1 throroughly, Except 1.2.5 and 1.3.11 can be read cursorly.
	Practice with some of the review questions (p. 39) until you are
	comfortable with the content. 
	Do for yourself Exercise 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.9, 2.4, 2.7, 2.10

	To prepare for the next week lectures, read through: 2.1, 2.4-2.4.8.
	(We will first do the practical "how to" solve linear systems,
	then later revisit the mathematical properties in 2.2 and 2.3.)

	Week 2:
	Read Ch 2.2 and 2.3. Particularly pay attention to the error bounds
	(Ch 2.3.4 and fig 2.4) Then explore systems with different conditioning
	yourself using this on-line calculator Compare your results 
	with fig 2.4. Read through cursorly the rest of Ch 2.4.9-2.7.
	Do review questions.

	Suggested exercises: (p 97-98) 2.8a, 2.12, 2.22, 2.25  
	Computer problems: (p. 100) 2.3, 2.10

	To prepare for next week read through: 3.1-3.4, Skim 3.5 

	Week 3 and 6:
	Read Ch 3 to 3.7. Then try this demo on polynomial data fitting
	Suggested exercises: 3.1, 3.5, 3.16
	Computer problems: 3.2, 3.5, 3.8

	Week 4:
	In detail: 7.1-7.3.3, to p. 319. 
	Medium detail: 7.4 Try comparing poly's and splines
	Skim rest of Ch 7.
	Suggested exercises: 7.1 7.2 7.4, 7.15
	Computer problems: 7.3, 7.5, 7.8

	Week 5-6:
	Review math125 topics as needed 4.1-4.2.4, Read cursorly until 4.4.1 
	In detail 4.5.1,2 demo,
	
	Medium detail: 4.5.5 Simultaneous iteration
	Cursorly: rest of 4.5, 4.6. Try to get the gist of QR iteration.

	Detail: 3.6 SVD.
	More info and applications on SVD
	Suggested exercises: 4.1, 4.3, 4.12, 4.16, 4.24, 3.30, 3.31
	Computer problems: 4.2, 4.5, 4.12

	Week 6:
	Review of material, examples and exercises in preparation
	for the exam.
	Tue: Midterm.
	Thu: More on Ch 3, 4 methods. Orthogonality, Gram-Schmidt, Givens transforms

	Week 7-8:
	Read Ch 5. except can just skim 5.5.5-5.5.6
	Try the demos on fixed point iteration and
	Newton's method
	Suggested exercises: 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.9
	Computer problems: 5.2, 5.3

	Week 9:
	Read Ch 6.1-6.6 In detail: 6.5.3 and 6.6.1
	Try the demos of Golden section search, Newton's 1D method,Newton's n-D and  Steepest Descent.
	Suggested exercises:  6.1a,b, 6.2a,b, 6.3a,b, 6.9
	Computer problems: 6.2, 6.5, 6.15

	Week 10:
	Read Ch 8.1, 8.3.1, 8.3.5, 8.6, 8.7, Rest of Ch 8 cursorly
	Try demos on derivatives, Newton-Cotes quadrature, Romberg integration.
	Suggested exercises: 8.2, 8.11, 8.12
	Computer problems: 8.1, 8.18

	Week 11: Selected topics TBA
	

	Last weeks:
	Review and exercises in preparation for exam 2.

	Note: The interactive parts are written in javascript and swing, and run on some browsers, but not others - especially not commercial propriertary browsers. You can enable java debugging, check your browsers javascript settings, etc - there are many of them, so might not be worth it. It's mainly a java implementation of the functionality that's already in Matlab and Octave.

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