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16:642:550 Fall 2004
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Instructor: Professor Barbara Osofsky
Office: 710 Hill Center
Phone: (732)-445-3485
Fax: (732)-445-5530
Office hours: W 2--4 or by appointment in Hill 710. T 2--4 in Hill
308 (undergraduate advising takes precedence here). The phone in 308 is the Mathematics Department phone.
Mathematics
Department Phone: (732)-445-2390
E-mail: osofsky@math.rutgers.edu
(The best way to reach me.)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- THE FINAL EXAM HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2004, 12 NOON TO 3 PM IN HILL 124
- The grades for MATLAB #5 have been posted in the FAS Gradebook 12/15. I will try and add the rest of your grades the evening of 12/15.
- Here is a review sheet for the final exam. You should also consider the review sheet for the midterm and review sheet for the final in Fall 2003 as integral parts of this review sheet.
- Here is an answer sheet for the quiz dated November 11, 2004. It contains a short exposition of what you will be reponsible for related to Jordan Canonical Form.
- Here is a review sheet for the first midterm exam.
- Here is an answer sheet for the first midterm exam.
- Here is a syllabus for the course. It contains information on topics to be covered in meetings of the course, as well as suggested problems. It is to be considered tentative. If there are any changes, they will be posted in this announcement section.
- Exams, Homework, and Grades: There will be one midterm exam,
worth 100 points, and a final exam, worth 200 points. Both exams will be
closed book. There will be five MATLAB assignments, worth a total of 100
points. Students are urged to work through most of the homework problems,
especially the problems marked with *, suggested in the syllabus. Occasionally
I may ask for some of the starred problems to be handed in or presented in class. These problems will be worth between 0 and 50 points.
Course Materials for this semester
Many of the links below are PDF files, which can be viewed using the freely available Adobe Acrobat Reader.-
General Course Information
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Course syllabus and suggested exercises
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Notes about MATLAB assignments
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MATLAB Teaching Codes
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MATLAB Assignment 1 (Due 9/20))
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MATLAB Assignment 2 (Due 10/6)
- MATLAB Assignment 3 (Due 10/25)
- MATLAB Assignment 4 (Due 11/15)
- MATLAB Assignment 5 (Due 12/8)
- Notes on the Fast Fourier Transform
- Notes on the Crout algorithm for factoring a matrix PA=LU
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