18.085 Class Home

18.085 Computational Science & Engr I

Fall 2012

Instructor: Gilbert Strang

TAs and Graders: Netanel Samual Blaier, Shevarl MacNamara, James Noraky, Amelia T Servi

Lecture: MWF11 (2-190)

Class Website:

http://math.mit.edu/classes/18.085/

OCW archive available

Announcements

announcement

The quiz solutions will be posted Tuesday afternoon and the exams returned
in the last class Wednesday (if all goes well). The lectures will apply Fourier to
PARTIAL differential equations (heat, wave, diffusion) and their difference equations.

Announced on 07 December 2012 3:02 p.m. by Amelia T Servi

Exam information

Exam 3 will start at 7:40 on Thursday evening in ROOM 54-100 !!!
EARTH SCIENCES building and NOT WALKER Question topics:

1. Fourier series / decay rate / energy / rules for df/dx etc
2. Discrete transform / FFT idea / Fourier matrix / link to K1D
3. Convolution / Toeplitz matrices / applications
4. Fourier integral / Green's function / equations on whole line

Announced on 03 December 2012 6:30 a.m. by Amelia T Servi

Homework 10 correction

CORRECTION TO PROBLEM 4.4.9:

The convolution should be (1, 2, 4) * (4, 2, 1)

Announced on 27 November 2012 10:50 a.m. by Amelia T Servi

Homework 10

Homework 10 due MON DEC 3 (for return before quiz)

4.4 2, 3, 7, 8, 9

4.5 1, 2, 7, 10, 11, 14, 22

4.6 1, 2

Announced on 26 November 2012 1:04 p.m. by Amelia T Servi

Homework 9 for WED November 21

Homework 9 for WED November 21

4.1 3, 7, 9, 10, 13
4.2 1, 3
4.3 2, 8, 10, 15, 17

Announced on 15 November 2012 3:26 p.m. by Shevarl MacNamara