APM2B10/APM02B2  2018

Applied Mathematics 2B

Introduction to Numerical Analysis

Times and venues

Lecturer and course co-ordinator: Dr. M.V. Visaya (Group 2)

Email: mvvisaya@uj.ac.za

Lecturer: Mr. J.M. Homann (Group 1) – Group 1 Lecture Notes

Email: jmhomann@uj.ac.za

Follow these instructions when emailing. Emails which do not adhere to the required format will be overlooked.

 

Offering

Day

Time

Timetable code

Group 1 Venue

Group 2 Venue

Lecture

Tuesday

08:00 - 08:45

G1

B Les 100

B Les 103

Wednesday

08:00 - 08:45

G2

B Les 100

B Les 103

Thursday

17:10 - 17:55

G3

B Les 100

C Les 201

Tutorial

Wednesday

15:30 - 17:05

P19 & P20

(C1 and C2)

See tutorials

Tutorials

Take note that the tutorial groups are different to the lecture groups.

Tutorials: Wednesday, 15:30-17:05 (C1 and C2 Timetable Code)

Group

Venue

1

C Les 201

2

C Les 202

3

C Les 203

 

Assessment

Assessment Type

Date

Time

Venue

Scope

Semester Test 1

29 August 2018

15:30-17:00

To be confirmed

1, 2 and 3

Semester Test 2

10 October 2018

15:30-17:00

To be confirmed

To be confirmed

Sick Test 1

To be confirmed

To be confirmed

To be confirmed

Same as Semester Test 1

Sick Test 2

To be confirmed

To be confirmed

To be confirmed

Same as Semester Test 2

Exam

12 November 2018

08:30-11:30

To be confirmed

To be confirmed

The scope is based on the section numbers of the course notes.

Semester test 1:

·         Scope excludes section 2.4.4 (expansion of multi-variable functions) and section 3.6 (systems of non-linear equations).

·         This information sheet will be provided with Semester Test 1.

Course materials

Administrative

Course notes

Assignments/Tutorials

Semester test

Extra problems

Taylor Series (Solutions)

Bisection Method (Solutions)

Linear Interpolation (Solutions)

Newton's Method (Solutions)

Fixed Point Iteration (Solutions)

Jacobi Method (Solutions)

Lagrange Interpolation (Solutions)

Least Squares (Solutions)

Chebyshev Polynomials (Solutions)

Numerical Differentiation (Solutions)

Trapezium Rule (Solutions)

Simpson's Rule (Solutions)

Euler's Method (Solutions)

Runge-Kutta (Solutions)

Links

Applied Mathematics (UJ page)
International School for Scientific Computing