CS3911 Introduction to Numerical Methods with Fortran
Course Information Page
Fall 2010

Course Instructor		Dr. C.-K. Shene
Office		Rekhi 305
Class Meeting		Tuesday and Thursday 14:05 - 15:20
Classroom		Fisher 139
Office Hour		Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 15:30 - 16:00
Phone		(906) 487-3392
e-mail		shene@mtu.edu

Click here to see the most recent announcements (December 11, 2010)
Click here for the most recent grade posting (December 19, 2010)

Some Important Advises

This course will use Fortran 90 exclusively. We will cover the basics of Fortran 90 throughout this semester. You may want to get a good reference of Fortran 90 in hand.

The prerequisites of this course include the following: MA 1160 or MA 1161 and (MA 2320(C) or MA2321(C) or MA 2330(C)) and CS 2321. Since calculus and linear algebra materials will be used very frequently in this course, you may also have your calculus and linear algebra textbooks in hand in case you may need them. We do not review these materials!

Always start doing your programming assignment EARLY. Waiting until the last few hours is definitely not a wise move, because there could be too many people running their programs at the same time making system response time extremely slow. Moreover, machines may crash causing extra delay. Normally, I do not grant any extension if your home machine, your phone line or the department machines crash in the last minutes. Always start early.

Due to security reasons, starting with Fall of 2008, you will not receive submission confirmation e-mails. As a result, you should use the interactive version of submit and ensure all required files are submitted properly. If you choose to use the command line version of submit, you should use the recover command to verify your submission. More information will be available later in this semester.
After submitting your assignment, DO NOT modify your files so that the system administrator can retrieve your files in case your submission did not go through successfully.

Always read the assigned materials listed in the weekly reading lists and do the problems. Weekly reading lists are available near the bottom of this page.

Textbook

Laurene V. Fausett,
Numerical Methods: Algorithms and Applications,
Prentice Hall, 2003

Other Materials

Fortran 90 Tutorial

Meeting Time and Office Hours

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
14:05 - 15:00		CS3911		CS3911
15:00 - 15:30		CS3911		CS3911	Dept. Seminar
15:30 - 16:00	Office Hour	Office Hour		Office Hour	Dept. Seminar
16:00 - 17:00	CS4411		CS4411		CS4411

After class and e-mail discussions are welcome

Course Syllabus

Only selected topics in each chapter will be presented in class.
Weekly reading lists will have the details.

*Week*		*Topics*	*Reading*
1	August 30	Fortran 90 Basics	Web tutorial and slides
2	September 6	Fortran 90 Basics	Web tutorial and slides
3	September 13	Accuracy and Reliability	Chapter 1 and slides
4	September 20	Solving Equations of One Variable	Chapter 2
5	September 27	Systems of Linear Equations	Chapters 3, 4 and 6
6	October 4	Systems of Linear Equations	Chapters 3, 4 and 6
7	October 11	Matrix Inversion	Chapter 4 and slides
8	October 18	Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors	Chapter 5
9	October 25	Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors	Chapter 5
10	November 1	Interpolation and Approximation	Chapter 8 and 9
11	November 8	Numerical Differentiation and Integration	Chapter 11
12	November 15	Ordinary Differential Equations	Chapter 12
13	November 29	Random Numbers	slides
14	December 6	Catch-Up

Important Dates

Week 5	September 30	Thursday	in class	Exam 1 (50 min)
Week 6	October 8	Friday	11pm	Program 1 due
Week 10	November 4	Thursday	in class	Exam 2 (50 min)
Week 11	November 12	Friday	11pm	Program 2 due
Week 14	December 10	Friday	11pm	Program 3 due
Final Week	December 14	Tuesday	3 - 5pm	Final (2 hours) Fisher 139

Weights Assigned to Programs

Program 1	Program 2	Program 3
100	100	100

Weights Assigned to Exams

Exam 1	Exam 2	Final
100	100	200

Grading

There are 700 points possible in this course - 300 from programs, 400 from the exams. You will be graded on the percentage of these points you accumulate. Grading will be based approximately on the scale shown in the table below.

Grade	A	AB	B	BC	C	CD	D	F
Scale	90-100%	85-89%	80-84%	75-79%	70-74%	65-69%	60-64%	0-59%

In addition, you will not receive a passing grade in the course unless you receive a passing grade on the exams and quizzes alone (i.e., 60%). Likewise, you will not receive a passing grade in the course unless you receive a passing grade on the programming assignments alone (i.e., 60%).

Late Policy

No late programming assignments will be graded, except that you have a valid excuse.

Collaboration and Cheating

No assignment-specific assistance should be given nor received on any programming assignment. Any outside help concerning the use of the computer facilities is acceptable. You may discuss the meaning or intent of an assignment, but not ways to program it. All work turned in must be completely your own. You must not share code or even outlines! Any and all use of programs from other texts or references must be explicitly stated as part of program documentation. In general, any acts of plagiarism will result in a failing grade for the course along with the submission of a report to the Dean of Students. See the hand-out on Computer Science Policy on Cheating and Academic Integrity Policy for more details.

Exams and Final

You are responsible for avoiding exam time conflicts!!

ADA

``MTU complies with all federal and state laws and regulations regarding discrimination, including the Americans with Disability Act of 1990 (ADA). If you have a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for equal access to education or services at MTU, please call Dr. Gloria Melton, Dean of Students, (2212). For other concerns about discrimination, you may contact your advisor, department head, or the Affirmative Action Office (3310).''

The following two web sites may provide you with more information:

Disability Services.
Affirmative Programs Office (commonly called the Affirmative Action Office, or AAO)

Other Useful Information

Downloadable Stuffs

Files are in PDF format.

Programming Information: Programming Assignment 1; Programming Assignment 2; Programming Assignment 3
Exam Information: Exam 1 Solutions (PDF file); Exam 2 Solutions (PDF file); Final Solutions (PDF file)
Reading Lists

Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7
Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12	Week 13	Week 14

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CS3911 Introduction to Numerical Methods with Fortran Course Information Page Fall 2010