Posts Tagged as ‘Numerical Methods’

July 4, 2009

Poems on Numerical Methods

In Summer 2009, I gave a HW assignment of writing a poem to my mostly right-brained students.  The results were great; I think they think they are poets and they know it.  The poems were all compiled and can be viewed at http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu/EML3041/homework/poems2009summer.html.
So happy reading and let me know what you think.  I selected 14 poems out of [...]

February 9, 2009

A problem using central divided difference error order

This is a problem I asked in the first examination of my Numerical Methods course in Spring 2009.   The question is that if one gives you an approximate value of the derivative of a function at a certain point using the central divided difference formula for two different step sizes, would you be able to [...]

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 [...]