Phys 540: Introduction to Scientific Computing¶
Contents:
- Setup
- Introduction
- Interacting via the terminal
- Unix tools
- Integer representations
- Exercise 1
- Lab 1
- Lab 2
- Polynomials
- Floating-point representations
- Machine representations of real numbers
- Radix point binary numbers
- Fixed-point binary
- Floating-point numbers
- Organization of the bit patterns
- Some floating-point examples
- Denormalized numbers
- Special floating-point values
- Representation errors
- Numerical Error
- Loss of significance
- Overflow
- Testing for equality
- Floating-point operations
- Propagation of errors
- Root finding
- Exercise 2
- Lab 3
- Lab 4
- Lab 5
- Lab 6