Midterm Exam, October 16th, 2009, 9:00 - 9:50 AM, 1320 DCL
You must bring a pencil and your ID Card to the Exam! No Calculators or Notes!
Covers Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
A study guide is available in HTML and PDF format.
Statistics (unadjusted): Count 67, Min 5/22, Max 22/22, Mean 15.2/22, Median 15/22
Statistics (adjusted): Count 67, Min 25%, Max 100%, Mean 75.2%, Median 75%
Final Exam, December 17th, 2009, 8:00 - 11:00 AM, 1310 DCL (A–M) and 1304 SC (N–Z)
Covers Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11.
A supplemental list of review questions is available in HTML format. Please let me know if you find typos!
Study Tips: The exam will be multiple choice with questions of similar difficultly to the quizzes, so make sure you really know all the quiz questions and answers. After you have finished studying the quizzes (and the midterm), try working all the review problems at the ends of the chapters. Go through the course notes and make sure you understand all the key points. Look through the text and make sure you understand the existence, uniqueness, and sensitivity of the problems which are are solving. Finally, for each chapter, what are the numerical methods, what solution do they produce, how much do they cost to implement, how stable are they. It's important to not only know the absolute cost and stability, but also the relative costs and stability (i.e. which method is best in which situation?). Make sure you know the methods well enough that you could actually apply the less complicated ones to a real problem (e.g., 3 by 3 matrix, 3 by 2 least-squares problem, 2 by 2 eigenvalue problem, 2 component Newton, 2 component Euler, scalar backward Euler, etc.) Although the exam will be comprehensive, it will be (very) slightly more concentrated on the second half of the course (Chapters 6 - 11).