EGR 537–001 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS Fall 2005 J. M. McDonough
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EGR 537–001                       NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
Fall 2005                                     J. M. McDonough
Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics  Numerical
analysis is the branch of applied mathematics devoted to
development of tech- niques to be employed in
computation—producing numbers. In the present era of high-speed,
relatively inexpensive digital computers this is an essential
topic for engineers and scientists who must solve problems
associated with predicting behavior of a broad spectrum of
physi- cal systems. While, in principle, one might expect to
accomplish this via the usual software packages such as MatLab,
it is crucial to understand how these packages work—what is
actually doing the work inside them—so that if results are not
as expected it is possible to understand the source of diﬃculty,
and possibly ﬁx it.     The goal