Homework 3 - Systems of Equations

Due: Wednesday July 1, 1998

Reading: Gerald and Wheatley, Chapter 2

Topics
  1. Direct Methods
    1. elimination methods
    2. LU decomposition
  2. norms and condition numbers
  3. Indirect Methods
    1. Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel
  4. nonlinear systems
The following problems are on page 200 of the text:

  1. 2, 6-7, 10, 14-16
  2. 22
  3. 27, 32
  4. 54 and 52, 55
  5. 59 - will Maple help?, 68, 71
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