CVEN 302
Lecture Outlines


This page will connect you with all of the important material covered in this class. This will include outlines of the lectures, homework assignments, reading assignments and exam reviews. The general outline is still tenative.


The outline of the lectures will emphasize the main points in the lecture. However, it will not substitute for attending the class. I am not a babysitter and you are all suppose to be adults. It will be beneficial to you to attend and see how the examples are worked and the theory behind the topic is applied.


If you have questions, email me!



Date Lecture Number Reading Section Homework Topic
June 3 Lecture 1 Chap. 1 HW 1 The initial discussion is on using Matlab and setting up files and running programs.
June 5 Lecture 2 Chap. 1 HW 2
June 7 Lecture 3 Chap. 1 HW 3
June 10 Lecture 4 Chap. 2 HW 4 Demostration of computer programs and how to setup the program. The week discussed computer errors and methods of single variable calculations.
June 12 Lecture 5 Chap. 2 HW 5
June 14 Lecture 6 Chap. 3 HW 6
June 17 Lecture 7 Chap. 3 HW 7 The week continues with one variable problems and starts the topic of matrix manipulation, i.e. Gaussian Elimination. The material covers the systems of equations and setting them up in matrix format. Discuss the solving systems of equations using Gaussian elimination, Gauss-Seidel, and Gauss-Jordan.
June 19 Lecture 8 Chap. 4 HW 8
June 21 Lecture 9 Chap. 5 HW 9
June 24 Lecture 10 Chap. 5 & 6 HW 10 Discussion on how to handle nonlinear numerical problems using succcessive over relaxation, newton method, and problems with the stability of nonlinear problems.
June 26 Lecture 11 Chap. 6 HW 11
June 28 Lecture 12 Chap. 7
July 1 Lecture 13 Chap. 7 HW 12 The exam is to be given in class and will be open notes and open book. The lectures cover the topics of LU decomposition, Cout's method, Doolittle method, Cholesky's method and how to solve problems using the techniques.
July 3 Exam 1
July 5 Break
July 8 5 Week Finals J1 The lectures introduce the topic of eigenvalues and eigenvectors and how to determine them using Power method, Inverse Power methods and QR techniques
July 10 Lecture 14 Chap. 8 HW 13
July 12 Lecture 15 Chap. 8 HW 14
July 15 Lecture 16 Chap. 9 HW 15 The introduction of interpolation between points using Lagrange, Newton and linear interpolation. Using interpolation techniques to analysis data points between values. The introduction of Rational function, Hermite polynomials and Cubic splines. The lecture dealt with least square techniques to find the best curve fit for the data.
July 17 Lecture 17 Chap. 9 break
July 19 Lecture 18 Chap. 11 HW 16
July 22 Lecture 19 Chap. 11 HW 17 Discussed nonlinear least square techniques (log-log), quadratic and Legrende polynomials to model the space. Discussion on how to do simple derivatives using Taylor series to obtain the formulas, estimating the error and how to refine the derivatives. The integration techniques using Trapezoidal, Simpson's method 1/3 and 3/8, Gaussian Quadrature and Romberg refinements.
July 24 Lecture 20 Chap. 12 HW 18
July 26 Lecture 21 Chap. 12 HW 19
July 29 Lecture 22 Chap. 13 The exam is to be given in class and will be open notes and open book. Discussion on how to do initial value problems with Taylor series, Euler, Modified Euler/Midpoint method/Linear Runge Kutta, Classic (4th order) Runge Kutta, Adam Bashford and Predictor Corrector techniques.
July 31 Exam 2
Aug. 2 Lecture 23 Chap. 13 HW 20
Aug. 5 Lecture 24 Chap. 14 HW 21 Discussion of systems of ODEs and discussion of BVP.
Aug. 7 Lecture 25 Chap. 14
Aug. 9 Lecture 26 Chap. 14



Last modified: 9:50 August 5, 2002
Dr E.W. Sandt
Civil Engineering Department
Texas A&M University

esandt@stommel.tamu.edu