March - April Lectures

Monday March 6

Tutorial: cubic and clamped cubic spline interpolation; comments on assignment 2 and term test 2. [Term test 2 is returned]
Lecture: finding zeros of functions symbolically and numerically.

Monday March 13

Tutorial: examples of finding zeros of functions. [Assignment 2 is due]
Lecture: finding zeros of functions numerically (concl.); integrating functions symbolically and numerically.
[Assignment 3 handed out, due March 27]

Monday March 20

Tutorial: common errors in assignment 2; comments about assignment 3; examples of midpoint and trapezoid integration methods.
Lecture: integration methods: revision of midpoint and trapezoid; Simpson's, compound methods and Monte Carlo approach; discussion of assignment 3.

Monday March 27

Tutorial: more examples of integration methods. [Assignment 3 is due]
Lecture: building functions from sine waves; filters and signals (introduction).

Monday April 3

Tutorial: common errors in assignment 3; examples of how to build functions form sine waves. [Assignment 3 is returned]
Lecture: filtering signals, linear filters, the sampling theorem.