Physics 5—Scientific  Computing

Instructor: Geoff Hagopian,
office: Math 12
email: ghagopian@colleGEOFthedesert.edu
phone: 776-7223
Meetings: TR: 9:30-12:00

[Syllabus]
[Calendar]
[Compilers]
[Exams]
[References]
[Grades]

Calendar—Fall 2008

Calendar of Assignments

Please note that this is an approximate calendar for the course.

Week #	Chapters Quizzes	Topics	Programming Assignments
1 Sept 2 - 4	1 and 2 Chapter 1 Quiz Chapter 2 Quiz	Introduction to the course	Write the Hello World program to establish your ability to use an IDE write a program you can compile and run and save it in a safe place.  Do the add two numbers exercise #1 on page 74.
2 Sept 9 - 11	3 Chapter 3 Quiz	Parts of a computer. Types of programming languages. Basic elements of a C++ program	Write a program to prompt a user to enter two integers and then compute and display the sum, difference, product and quotient of these integers. The interface should look something like the following: This program will <explanation> Please enter the first integer: Please enter the seond integer: The CPU reports that the sum of ___ and ___ is ______ the difference of ___ and ____ is ______ the product of ___ and ____ is ______ the quotient of ___ and ____ is ______
3 Sept 16-18	3 Chapter 1 Test at ILRN.COM	Expressions and interactivity. Making decisions Reading and Writing with files	Chapter 3: Math Tutor, monthly payment and word game problems. Chapter 4: Roman Numerals and Math Tutor. See the assignments page for a statement of these programming challenges. Hangman.
4 9/23 - 9/25	chapter 4 Chapter 4 Quiz	conditional statements	Doublets assignments. Doublet Problem01 Doublet Problem02 Doublet Problem03
5 9/30 - 10/2	Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Quiz	Looping with while loops and do-while loops - Nesting loops	Babylonian Algorithm Write program that will take the coefficients a, b and c of a quadratic ax^2 + bx + c and display the approximate zeros, be they real or complex. Don't use cmath library.
6 10/7 - 10/9	Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Quiz	Functions, pass-by-value vs. pass-by-reference.	Rectangle Area programming challenge 2. Write primes to a file.
7 10/14 - 10/16	Chapters 6 and 7	Functions, pass-by-value vs. pass-by-reference.	Write factorial and binomial coefficient functions to compute and display the expansion of a binomial a+bx raised to a natural number power.
8 10/21 - 10/23	Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Quiz	Arrays	Start the king's tour project Note the quizzes at ILRN.COM
9 10/28 - 10/30	Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Quiz	Pointers	Chapter 9: Programming Challenge #5. Programming Challenge #9.
10 11/4 - 11/6	Chapter 9	More pointers: Dynamic Memory Allocation Midterm Exam	Get caught up
11 11/11 - 11/13	Chapter 9	Holiday	More dynamic memory allocation Matrix operations: Allocate matrix memory, input and display a matrix of user defined dimensions, compute the product of the matrices, if compatible. Compute the square and higher powers of the matrix. Compute The matrix power e^[X] as the partial sum approximation of the infinite sum
12 11/18 - 11/20	Chatper 9 and Chapter 10	More dynamic memory allocation	Use row operations to (1) Reduce a random matrix to row-echelon form (2) Solve a random nXn system of equations (3) Find the inverse matrix of a random matrix.
13 11/25	Chapter 10	Strings	Write a program to determine all anagrams of a given seven letter word. As part of this, you'll have to write code to find all permutations of 7 objects.
14 12/2 - 12/4	Chapter 11 Chpater 13	structures and classes	Write a function to input the real and imaginary parts of a complex number and return these as a Complex structure. Then write functions to add, subtract, multiply and divide these Complex structures and incorporate these functions in a program.
15 12/9 - 12/11			Final Exam