Entries from January 2009

January 27, 2009

Audiovisual Lectures on Numerical Methods

We have started to put audiovisual lectures on the web for an undergraduate course in numerical methods. These videos are available at the youtube site http://www.youtube.com/numericalmethodsguy.
Some of the videos are longer than 10 minutes, so they could not be loaded to the youtube site. Right now, these videos and the links to the youtube videos [...]

January 15, 2009

Proper modeling needs to precede numerical solutions

Given below is a problem where it is shown that proper modeling is key to solving engineering problems.  An improper model and a proper model may lead to opposite conclusions

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January 8, 2009

Numerical Methods Book Printed

The blog is restarting after a month of hiatus due to winter break at my institution. As part of the dissemination plan of our NSF funded grant, we have printed a numerical methods book. This book consists of most of the numerical methods taught in a typical numerical methods course.
The book is [...]