MTH 452- 552 : NUMERICAL ODEs - Winter 2018
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Students will be expected to know the material on Initial Value Problems from what is covered in MTH 256. If you need a refresher, consider the online textbook "Elementary Differential Equations" by William F. Trench (especially Chapter 2). You may also like other Chapters in that book, such as on the applications, and on systems. We will also cover some Boundary Value problems (Chapter 11 in online textbook by the same author including BVP).
You will also need to know enough on eigenvalues/eigenvectors of matrices (material covered in MTH 306 or MTH 341), such as what can be revised in Linear Algebra text used in MTH 341.
We will also use Taylor expansions. A lot! Those not remembering how to expand f(x+h)=f(x)+..., please review.


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