MCS 471 Project Descriptions

There will be five projects assigned during the semester. Descriptions of the assigned projects will be posted below.

Project One due Monday 12 September 2005, 3PM

Numerical Evaluation of Quadratic Forms (html) Maple Worksheet (mws file).
  • postscript version of project description
  • project description in pdf format
  • partial solution to the project as exported Maple worksheet

    • Project Two due Friday 30 September 2005, 3PM

    Müller's Method for Polynomial Roots
  • the function mueller.m for MATLAB or Octave
  • the function run_mueller.m for MATLAB or Octave
  • a solution to the project

    • Project Three due Monday 31 October 2005, 3PM

    Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization and QR
  • the function gsqr.m for MATLAB or Octave
  • a solution to the project

    • Project Four due Wednesday 16 November 2005, 3PM

    Chebyshev Approximations (html) Maple Worksheet (mws file).
  • postscript version of project description
  • project description in pdf format
  • partial solution to the project as exported Maple worksheet

    Project Five due Friday 2 December 2005, 3PM

    Solving ODEs with MATLAB (pdf file of project description)
  • a solution to the project