Week 5 checklist

Tuesday, September 26 to Monday, October 2

Lessons

• 3.1 Euler’s Method
• 3.2 The Improved Euler Method/3.3 The Runge-Kutta Method
• See a comparison of these methods in an example in this spreadsheet
• Here are some of my old notes from a few years ago (scroll past the office hours notes to see the lecture notes)
  • Euler’s method
  • Improved Euler’s method and Runge-Kutta method

OpenLab

• Are you bad at math? Really??? (Instructions here)

WeBWork

• Numerical Methods-Euler
• Numerical Methods-Improved Euler
• Numerical Methods-Runge-Kutta
  • The Runge-Kutta problem may give you an error message but you should still be able to complete the problem

Coming up

• We start Chapter 5 in Week 6
  • Chapter 5 has some similarities with Chapter 2 in that you will be solving differential equations by hand, but in Chapter 5 you will be solving second order equations
• Test #2
  • Thursday, October 5
  • Covers Chapter 3 (Numerical Methods)
• Project #1
  • Part 1 (partners) due on the OpenLab Monday, October 16
  • Part 2 (groups) due on the OpenLab Monday, October 23
  • Instructions here