Lecturer: Weizhu Bao

Office: S14 #04-20;

Office Hours: Wed: 10:00-12:00nn or by appointment at S14 #04-20.

Phone: 6516-2765(o); E-mail: bao@cz3.nus.edu.sg

Course Web: http://www.cz3.nus.edu.sg/~bao/teach/cz2105/cz2105.html

Lecture time/venue: Wednesday 8:00 --- 10:00am at S13-05-04.

Tutorial venue/time: At S16-03-03 .

• Group 1: Monday 10:00am --- 12:00nn
• Group 2: Thursday 4:00pm --- 6:00pm

• Group 1: Monday 10:00am --- 12:00nn
• Group 2: Thursday 4:00pm --- 6:00pm

Weekly tutorial/lab schedule Please proceed to S13-05-14A Computational Science Year 1/2 Lab to do the tutorial/lab registration. You can look for Miss Ng Hwee Lang.

Textbook: Numerical Methods (2nd edition, 1998), by J.D. Fairs and R.L. Burden. Publisher: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company. Burden and Faires' another book ``Numerical Analysis'' (6th edition, 1997) would be OK.

Reference Book :

Quick Reference Sheets(in pdf): Matlab, Maple

Course Outline: The course will introduce numerical methods for solving a variety of mathematical and physical problems numerically: generation and propagation of round-off errors and convergence criteria, solutions of linear systems, function approximation and interpolation, special function evaluation, fitting/modeling of data, numerical differentiation & integration, and linear programming. Detail Outline

Grading: The course grade will be calculated as follows: Final exam: 60%; Labs: 15%; Assignments: 20%; and Tutorials: 5%.

Schedule of tests:

• Final exam: 4 May, 2006, 9-11am, at LT26 .

Homework and Lab Assignments: click here for assignments

This course outline is available on web site: http://www.cz3.nus.edu.sg/~bao/teach/cz2105/cz2105.html