Instructor: Stephen Brill

Office: MB (Mathematics Building) 218-A

Phone: (208) 426-3122

Fax: (208) 426-1356

Email: sbrill@boisestate.edu

Class meetings:

• Section 001: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1200-1315, MB 136.

• Section 003: Wednesdays and Fridays, 1030-1145, MB 136.

Textbook: Numerical Computing with MATLAB by Moler. This book is available as a free download.

Topics covered:

• Basic programming constructs

• Drawing pictures, both stills and movies

• Solving linear systems

• Root finding

• Interpolation

• Approximating functions

• Numerical calculus

Computer:

• Here is the schedule for the MB 136 computer lab.

• Here is a link to get Matlab for free.

Office hours: Immediately after class on Mondays and Wednesdays. Other times by appointment.

Academic honesty and appropriate behavior: All students are expected to be familiar with and adhere to the policies and standards given in the BSU Student Code of Conduct.

Cell phones, paging devices, etc.: Please turn off or silence your devices during class time.

Late work and/or extensions: If you seek an extension on an assignment and the request occurs after the due date or time, your request will be summarily denied (except in the most extraordinary circumstances). Such requests that occur before the due date and time will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Contesting grades: If you think I have graded you unfairly on a particular assignment, you must bring this to my attention within a week from the time that the assignment was returned to the class. After a week I will not consider any requests to review and possibly change my grading.

Learning outcome: At the end of the semester, the student will be able to take a mathematical problem and write Matlab code to solve it.

Grading policy:

• Your grade will be determined by your performance on homework exercises which will occur regularly. Your lowest homework score will be "dropped". You will always have a week to complete each homework assignment. Each homework assignment is due at 2359 on its due date.

• Your grade will be computed via the following algorithm. Let x be the number of points accumulated throughout the semester (between 0 and 100):

A+: x > 97

A: 93 < x < 97

A-: 90 < x < 93

B+: 87 < x < 90

B: 83 < x < 87

B-: 80 < x < 83

C+: 77 < x < 80

C: 73 < x < 77

C-: 70 < x < 73

D: 60 < x < 70

F: x < 60

This page was most recently updated on 27 December 2022.