UCU Science course SCI 311
Advanced Mathematics (Spring 2010)

The lectures of this course (on Wednesday) are taught by Johan van de Leur. The classes on Friday are given by Johan van de Leur and Karolina Lhotkova.(K.Lhotkova.”AT”students.uu.nl).

Below you find a schedule of the activities for Science course 311 listed by week. This schedule will be updated regularly.
For other information see
SCI 311 at UCU
youtube lectures of Gilbert Strang
google books

The Mathematica Notebooks can be downloaded from this page (right click and choose "Save link as...").

mathintro.nb (Introduction to Mathematica notebook), this uses
silver.m
311-students-2009.nb (Notebook used in this course)

• Week 5
  Wednesday 03/2: Section 1.2 and part of 1.3 of the book
  Homework: 1.2.1,1.2.6, 1.2.10 to be handed in Wednesday 10/02 8.45 AM
  Friday 05/2: Mathematica mathintro.nb
  Homework: Section the Least Squares of 311-students-2009.nb (See for some extra remarks by Jan-Jaap Oosterwijk: Notebook1.nb) to be handed in Friday 12/02 4 PM

• Week 6
  Wednesday 10/02: Rest of section 1.3, the method of the least squares from section 1.4
  Friday 12/02: Exercises 1.311, 1.3.16 , 1.3.8, 1.4.3, 1.4.7
  Homework: 1.3.5, 1.3.7, 1.4.4 to be handed in Friday 19/02 4 PM

• Week 7
  Wednesday 17/02: Rest of section 1.4, beginning of section 1.5
  Friday 19/02: Exercises 1.4.1 (ii), 1.4.8, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3
  Homework: 1.4.1(i), 1.4.10, 1.5.3, 1.5.7 to be handed in Friday 26/02 4 PM

• Week 8
  Wednesday 24/02: Rest of section 1.5, beginning of section 1.6
  Friday 26/02: Exercises 1.5.13, 1.5.14, 1.6.8, 16.9
  Homework: 1..6.20, 1.6.21, 1.6.22, 1.6.25 to be handed in Friday 5/03 4 PM

• Week 9
  Wednesday 3/03: Part of sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3
  Friday 5/03: Exercises 2.2.3 (a), 2.2.7, 2.3.1, 2.3.2
  Homework: Section “A framework for applications and min-max duality” of 311-students-2009.nb to be handed in before Friday 12/03 4 PM

• Week 10
  Wednesday 10/03: Part of sections 2.3 and 2.4
  Friday 12/03: Exercises 2.4.1. 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4
  Homework: Section “Trusses: Part I” of 311-students-2009.nb (see also the remarks on page 130) to be handed in before Friday 19/03 4 PM

• Week 11
  Wednesday 17/03: section 2.4 and part of section 3.1
  Friday 19/03: Section “Trusses: Part II” of 311-students-2009.nb
  Midterm Assignment : Section “Midterm Project” of 311-students-2009.nb to be handed in by sending it by e-mail to J.W.vandeLeur”at”uu.nl before Friday 17/04 4 PM

• Week 12
  Wednesday 24/03: section 3.1 and 3.2 on Sturm-Liouville differential equation
  Friday 26/03: Study part of section 3.2 on the bending beam and study first part of the Section “Sturm-Liouville Problem” of 311-students-2009.nb
  Homework: Section “Sturm-Liouville Problem of 311-students-2009.nb to be handed in before Friday 16/04 4 PM

• Week 13
  No classes this week.

• Week 14
  Wednesday 07/04: section 3.2 on splines and first part of 3.6
  Wednesday Friday 09/04: Section “Interpolation: Dispacements...cubic splines” of 311-students-2009.nb
  Homework: Exercises 3.2.18, 3.6.5, 3.6.6 to be handed in Friday 23/04 4 PM

• Week 15
  No classes this week.

• Week 16
  Wednesday 21/04: section 3.6 and some remarks on soap bubbles
  Friday 23/04: Exercises 3.6.4, 3.6.7, 3.6.11, study section “soap bubbles in the plane” of 311-students-2009.nb
  Homework: Start studying section “soap bubbles in the plane” of 311-students-2009.nb this will be the final project of this course Deadline May 21, 1 PM

• Week 17
  Wednesday 28/04:
  Friday 30/04: No class today

• Week 18
  Wednesday 5/05: No class today
  Friday 7/05:

• Week 19
  Wednesday 12/05:
  Friday 14/05: No class today

• Week 20
  Friday 21/05: Deadline Final project, 1 PM.