Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | NUMERICAL METHODS | ||||||
Course Unit Code | ACSC285 | ||||||
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Number of ECTS credits allocated | 5 | ||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||
Prerequisites | AMAT122 | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||
Course Contents | Tools for Scientific Computation: Mathematical background from Calculus, Floating point representation and arithmetic; rounding errors and its consequences. Approximation of functions and derivatives; measuring and controlling errors. Solving non-linear equations: Iterative methods; bracketing and bisection method; Newton-Raphson & secant method; convergence rates and criteria. Curve Fitting: Polynomial Interpolation with Monomial Basis; Numerical Integration and Differentiation: Newton-Cotes Rules (Trapezoidal and Simpson’s Rules); Taylor-series Method; Solving first-order Ordinary Differential Equations: Euler and Midpoint Method; Multistep Method. | ||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | For the delivery of the class material, power point presentations are primarily used, along with the whiteboard. The lecture notes, consisting of slides presented in class, and additional material, are made available to the students through the course website and are complementary of the course textbooks. The theoretical part of each lecture is accompanied with detailed solved examples on which emphasis is given in the class. The solutions to these exercises, as well as specimen solutions for all tests and assignments, are discussed with students. | ||||||
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Language of instruction | English | ||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |