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<p>Those who stuck around for class on Wednesday voted for no class
on Friday. <br>
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<p>As I desribed to those class, the final will be broken into two
sections. One section of the final will focus on your ability to
compare and contrast the various techniques that you have learned
about this semester and your ability to implement numerical
algorithms.</p>
<p>The second part of the exam will focus more on the material from
chapters 7, 8, and 10. You can expect to have to do some
regression, some iterative matrix work, and calculate varius
norms. As I mentioned in class, I can't ask you to take a lot of
partial derivatives for the work related to nonlinear systems and
nonlinear optimization, but I could provide you with derivatives
or ask you about how the matrices should be built.</p>
<p>I will provide a cover sheet with ALL of the Newton-Cotes
equations, Gaussian Quadrature equations, and the K's and update
expression for the Runge-Kutta method.<br>
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<p>That's about all I can tell you... but let me know if you have
questions related to HW8 that is due tomorrow.</p>
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<b><i>Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.</i></b> <a
href="mailto:pounds_aj@mercer.edu">(pounds_aj@mercer.edu)</a><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</i><br>
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