PowerPoint Presentations

Introduction to Scientific Computing

Introduction to numerical methods [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Measuring errors [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Sources of error [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Binary representation of numbers [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Floating point representation of numbers [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Propagation of errors [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Taylor series [PDF] [PPT] [MORE]

Differentiation

Continuous functions [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Discrete functions [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Effect of step size on accuracy of numerical first derivative: Forward Divided Difference [PDF] [PPT] Effect of step size on accuracy of numerical first derivative Backward Divided Difference [PDF] [PPT] Effect of step size on accuracy of numerical first derivative: Central Divided Difference [PDF] [PPT]

Nonlinear Equations

Bisection Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Newton-Raphson Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Secant Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE]

Simultaneous Linear Equations

Gaussian Elimination [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] LU Decomposition method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Gauss-Seidel method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE]

Interpolation

Direct Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Newton’s Divided Difference Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Lagrange Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Spline Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE]

Regression

Linear Regression [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Nonlinear regression [PDF] [PPT] [MORE]

Integration

Trapezoidal Rule [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Simpson’s 1/3rd Rule [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Romberg Rule [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Gauss-Quadrature Rule [PDF] [PPT] [MORE]

Ordinary Differential Equations

Euler’s Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Runge-Kutta 2nd order Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Runge-Kutta 4th order Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Shooting Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Finite Difference Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE]

Optimization

Golden Section Search Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Newton’s Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Multidimensional Direct Search Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Multidimensional Gradient Method [PDF] [PPT] [MORE]

Partial Differential Equations

Introduction to Partial Differential Equations [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Parabolic Partial Differential Equations [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Elliptic Partial Differential Equations [PDF] [PPT] [MORE]

Fast Fourier Transforms

Introduction to Fourier Series [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Continuous Fourier Series [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Fourier Transform Pair [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Discrete Fourier Transform [PDF] [PPT] [MORE] Informal Development of Fast Fourier Transform [PDF] [PPT] [MORE]