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<p><font face="serif">Class -- since my second homework problem is
so critically tied to the second programming project, on Monday
we will devote classtime to you coding it -- and I will provide
starting stubs for those using FORTRAN/LAPACK/BLAS and those
using C/C++/GSL. <br>
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<p><font face="serif">I could not find </font>my Armadillo and
Boost++ implementations. I know I have them, but I don't know if
any of you are using those libraries so I really didn't look too
hard. <br>
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<p>On Wednesday we will cover vector and matrix norms and iterative
techniques to solve <math
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. After Wednesday's lecture, you should have enough "tools" in
your computational arsenal to complete the second NMR project. We
will finish off the iterative techniques as well as a brief dive
into eigenvalues and eigenvectors on the Monday you get back from
Thanksgiving. That leaves five lecture periods to finish out the
three final topics for the semester. <br>
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<p>I hope to have HW5 graded by tomorrow and to have the first NMR
project graded by Friday of this week and the HW 6 will be graded
before your test on Monday.<br>
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<p>HW6 is due on Wednesday and your next test is next MONDAY Nov.
22nd and it will only be over chapters 5 and 6. It will be an
in-class exam (not a take-home).<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<b><i>Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.</i></b><br>
<i>Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science</i><br>
<i>Director of the Computational Science Program</i><br>
<i>Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627</i></div>
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