Introduction to Mathematical Modeling
V51-1
Spring 2000
Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, New York University
Jonathan Goodman
Meeting Mondays and Wednesdays from 2pm to 3:50pm in LC4
Office hours: Wednesday after class until 6pm, or by appointment .
To make an appointment, or contact me (the instructor, Jonathan Goodman),
send email to goodman@cims.nyu.edu,
drop in during office hours, or phone (212-998-3326).
The
class bulletin board.
Hints and Suggestions
for the class project.
Downloading and printing
Each document will be posted intwo formats, Postscript format (.ps),
and a translation of the Postscript file into PDF format. Postscript is
a language created by Adobe for high end printers. If you have a Postscript
printer, you can simply print the Postscript format file. This is the best
method. Software for viewing and printing Postscript files on non Postscript
printers, mostly under the name "ghostscript" is free for the
downloading. The Acrobat reader,
which allows you to view and print PDF format files, is an Adobe product
and can be downloaded
free. I make the PDF files from the corresponding Postscript file
using another Adobe product, the Distiller. It too can be downloaded
from the Adobe web site.
Homework assignments
- Homework 1 is due February 1. You can download the assignment
in postscript (.ps) format or in acrobat
(.pdf) format. Along with the assignment are a Matlab
program, and four plots: plot1.ps,
plot2.ps, plot3.ps,
plot4.ps, or, in acrobat format, plot1.pdf,
plot2.pdf, plot3.pdf,
and plot4.pdf. If you have questions
or comments on the homework, try posting them on the class bulletin board
first. I will post responses there, as may other students in the class,
or any outsiders who stumble on this hot web site.
- Homework 2 is due February 9. You can download the homework
in postscript (.ps) format or in
acrobat (.pdf) format. 2/13/00: the homework is graded. Please
look at the comments.
- Homework 3 is also due February 9. You can download it in
postscript (.ps) format, or in acrobat
(.pdf) format. This homework is very much like homework 1. As I started
grading homework 1, it became clear that people needed more practice with
this stuff before we move on. Here are comments
on the graded homework.
- Homework 4 is finally ready, in acrobat
(.pdf) format or postscript (.ps) format.
- Homework 5 is finally ready, in acrobat
(.pdf) format or postscript (.ps) format.
- Homework 6 is ready, in acrobat
(.pdf) format or postscript
(.ps) format. Please post on the class
bulletin board if you have problems or questions.
- Homework 7 is ready, in acrobat
(.pdf) format or postscript (.ps) format.
Before doing question 4, look at the hints
on Matlab.
- Homework 8 is ready, in acrobat
(.pdf) format or postscript (.ps) format.
- Homework 9 is ready, in acrobat
(.pdf) format or postscript (.ps) format.
Please email me if anything is unclear. I will post answers on the
class bboard. Corrected Tuesday at 10am. Please download again.
The correction is in the definition of energy in question 2. Good luck.
Lecture notes
Useful links