February Lectures

Monday February 7

Tutorial: revision of all tutorial material up to now.
Lecture: solving differential equations; dynamical simulations. [Test substituting assignment 1.]

Monday February 14

Reading week: no lectures and tutorials.

Monday February 21

Tutorial: polynomial interpolation. [Assignment 1 and term test 1, returned]
Lecture: Lagrange and piecewise polynomial interpolation; natural cubic splines.
[Assignment 2 handed out, due March 13]

Monday February 28

Tutorial: term test 2.
Lecture: clamped cubic spline interpolation, and comments on assignment 2;
Students should read the notes on Catmull-Rom interpolant and basis functions.