Enrollment year
2012/2013
Academic discipline
MAT/08 (NUMERICAL ANALYSIS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Course
NATURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (01/10/2014 - 16/01/2015)
Lesson hours
30 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN TEST
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of computer operation.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will be able to focus the connection between mathematics and automatic computation.
Students will be learned about widely used software packages and they will be aware of the available mathematical software tools.
Topics related to courses of the undergraduate degree will be put first.
Course contents
1. Automatic computation: basic concepts
2. General description of Matlab potentiality and main instructions. Graphics: 2D and 3D plots. Plots of sequences and recurrent sequences. Plots of series.
3. Implementation of simple algorithms
Extended summary
Matlab commands:
- entering commands
- matrices and arrays
- operators and elementary mathematical operations
- script and function M-file
- for, while, if-then-else commands
- matrix operations
- plots of elementary functions, logarithmic e semi-logarithmic scale plots;
- curve and surface plots
- polynomials: curve fitting, roots
- Toolboxes
Implementation of mathematical algorithms explained during the lessons
Some hints to available mathematical software tools
Teaching methods
Lessons and exercises with the computer.
Reccomended or required readings
Matlab guides
Assessment methods
Implementation of simple algorithms with Matlab.
Further information
Implementation of simple algorithms with Matlab.
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