Lecturer: Weizhu Bao

Office: S14 #04-20;

Office Hours: Monday : 4:00-6:00pm or by appointment at S14 #04-20.

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

Course Web: http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/~bao/cz3105/cz3105.html

Lecture time/venue: Monday 2:00pm-4:00pm at S13 05-07 .

Tutorial time/venue: Monday 6:00pm-8:00pm at the Conference Room of The Center for Computational Science & Engineering (CSE) S16, Level 8 .

Detailed tutorial/lab schedule:
• Week 3 (28 August -- 1 September): Tutorial 1
• Week 4 (4 September -- 8 September): Lab 1
• Week 5 (11 September -- 15 September): Tutorial 2
• Week 6 (18 September -- 22 September): Lab 2
• Week 7 (2 October -- 6 October): Tutorial 3
• Week 8 (9 October -- 13 October): Lab 3
• Week 9 (16 October -- 20 October): Tutorial 4
• Week 10 (23 October -- 27 October): Lab 4
• Week 11 (30 October -- 3 November): Tutorial 5
• Week 12 (6 November -- 10 November): Lab 5
• Week 13 (13 November -- 17 November): Tutorial 6

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.

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Course Outline: The course will focus on numerical methods for scientific computing including numerical integration for area and volume of geometric shapes, numerical methods for initial and boundary value problems in science (pendulum, population model, chemical reaction rates etc.) Detail Outline

Grading: The course grade will be calculated as follows: Final exam: 50%; Lab assignement: 20%; Homework assignments: 25%; and tutorial attendence: 5%.