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Week of 03--07 October

Lectures
Topics Reading
M 10/03
Lect. 8
Complex numbers: complex plane, addition and multiplication, complex conjugates, polar form of complex numbers, powers and roots, exponentiation, hyperbolic and trigonometric forms Kreyszig 13.1, 13.2, 13.5, 13.6 (pages: 602-606, 607-611, 623-626, 626-629)
W 10/05
Lect. 9
Matrix eigenvalues: eigenvalue/eigenvector definitions, invariants, principal directions and values, symmetric, skew-symmetric, and orthogonal systems, orthogonal transformations Kreyszig 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 (pages: 334-338, 340-343, 345-348)
F 10/07
Lect. 10
Hermitian forms, similar matrices, eigenvalue basis, diagonal forms Kreyszig 8.4, 8.5 (pages: 349-354, 356-361)

Laboratory
Date Topics Reading
Th 10/6
Lab 3
File input/output, plotting data Mathematica Help Browser ``tutorial/ImportingAndExportingFiles,''
``tutorial/ImportingAndExportingData,''
``tutorial/lottingListsOfData,''
``tutorial/ManipulatingNumericalData,''
``tutorial/CurveFitting,''
``guide/Statistics'';

Functions: Dimensions, Append, AppendTo, Mean, StandardDeviation, ListPlot, Table, MultipleListPlot, Fit, FindFit

Homework
Homework Set Out Due
4 (counts double) 5 Oct. 21 Oct. (6PM)
5 2 Nov. 11 Nov. (6PM)







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