64623 NUMERICAL COMPUTING

FACULTY OF SCIENCES

Full Unit Specifications
(Variations may occur between Day & External Offerings)


Credit Points 1.00

Pre-requisite: 64612 + (66001 or 66003 or E0001)

Co-requisite: 64613/75613

Synopsis

This  unit includes the study of either the languages C or FORTRAN  as
an   introduction  to  modern  scientific  programming  languages  and
development  of structured programming principles. Standard  numerical
methods  are  developed  using  both  the  chosen  language  and   the
interactive package MATLAB. The numerical techniques developed include
error analysis, numerical solution of linear and non-linear equations,
numerical  interpolation,  differentiation  and  integration,   spline
approximation,  Monte Carlo simulation, and computional  solutions  of
ordinary differential equations. Computer graphics techniques are also
discussed throughout.