MTH 510 Course Management Form - Fall 2020 Page 1 of 6

Ryerson University
Faculty of Science
Department of Mathematics
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Course Outline (Fall 2020)

MTH 510 — Numerical Analysis

Instructor Dr. Laul Fisseha

Dept. of Mathematics, Ryerson University
Office: VIC 703
Tel: 416-979-5000, Ext. 3811
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: Thursday 2-3 pm or by appointment

Two D2L shells: One for all sections across the board (for Labs, Assign-
ments, quizzes, sample exams, solutions), and one that is instructor specific
Course
(for lecture-specific content, office hours, exam locations).
Website
You are responsible to check both D2L shells regularly for posted materials
and administrative announcements.

Prerequisites MTH 141 and MTH 240

Calendar Review of Taylor’s formula, truncation error and round off error. Solutions of
Description Non-linear Equations in one variable. Linear Equations. LU-decomposition.
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel methods. Interpolation
and curve fitting. Numerical integration. Numerical solution of ordinary dif-
ferential equations. (Initial value problems.)
Lect: 3 hrs, Lab: 1 hr

Compulsory Applied Numerical Methods with MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists (4th
Textbook Edition) by Steven C. Chapra, McGraw Hill (2018).
ISBN 978-0-07-339796-2

Course 3 hours of pre-recorded video Lecture per week for 13 weeks,

Organization 2 hour of live discussion conference on Zoom (Fri. 8am -10am)
1 hour of live office hour on Zoom (Thurs. 2-3 pm)
1 hour of live Lab per week for 12 weeks on Zoom.
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Learning At the end of the course, a successful student will be able to:
Objectives 1. apply numerical methods to solve linear and nonlinear systems
2. apply numerical methods to perform numerical integration
3. fit or interpolate numerical data
4. solve ordinary differential equations numerically
5. use MATLAB for the numerical methods covered in the course

Assignments (5 out of 6) 10 %
Course
Quizzes (6 out of 7) 18 % (during some Labs)
Evaluation
Midterm Exam (Ch. 2-6, 9-12) 35 % Fri Nov 6, 8:00-9:30 am
Final exam (Ch. 2-6, 9-15, 17-22) 37 % (3h) during Exam Period

Grading
To pass the course you have to get at least 50% of the total course marks.
Requirements

Labs Labs are in the form of computer labs and will provide hands-on instruction
and practice using MATLAB for course-related problems. Examples and
Exercise questions will be made available prior to the Lab, and Lab solutions
will be posted after the Lab has been completed by all sections for the course.
During some Labs there will be quizzes based entirely on Matlab, requiring
Matlab use. TA will hold an online live lab session on Zoom. The zoom
link will be posted one day before the lab session in the instructor course shell.

Solutions to Quizzes will not be posted. Marked Quizzes will be re-

turned to those that wrote the Quiz. Only one sample Quiz will be posted
in D2L. It will be up to the student to obtain the correct answers to quizzes
either from their Lab TAs during Labs, or from their instructor.

Assignments will be submitted by D2L in the instructor course shell by the

Due Date indicated on the Assignment.
Assignments Assignments will contain a combination of textbook questions, and others,
and some questions will require the use of MATLAB.
Assignments must be completed individually, and the answers must be every
student’s own original work. You are allowed to work as teams or groups to
solve the problems, and this is in fact highly encouraged. In this case, simply
acknowledge your colleagues (by name) so as to avoid plagiarism issues.
However, every student is required to submit an electronic version (pdf file)
of their own Assignment in the common course shell.
Not all parts of all Assignments will be marked.

Students will be given a Recommended Homework list that is not to

be handed in for marking. Solutions to Assignments and to some Recom-
mended Homework questions will be posted in the common D2L course
shell.
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Some lectures and most Labs will involve the use of MATLAB. There will also
Educational
be a portion of assignment/exam material devoted to MATLAB. All quizzes
Technology
require the use of MATLAB.

• Quizzes will be open-book, and will require the use of Matlab.

• The Midterm and Final exam will be closed-book.
Evaluation • The Midterm and Final exam will consist of questions requiring full solu-
Guidelines tions, some short-answer questions, as well as some Matlab-based multiple
choice questions. The short-answer questions and multiple choice
questions are carried on D2L in the first 20 minutes of the exam.
• Non-programmable scientific calculators will be permitted.
• The exams will contain a separate formula sheet.
• Formula sheets will be made available to students throughout the term.
• Midterms written in pencil or erasable pen are ineligible for remarking.
• If a midterm is submitted for re-marking, the entire midterm will be
remarked.
• Sharing of pencils, pens, erasers or scientific calculators is NOT PERMIT-
TED during an evaluation. PDAs, cell phones, computers and pagers must
be turned off and out of reach after the first 20-minutes of the exam.
• Extra 15 minutes will be given in midterm and final exams for uploading
answers.
• You must bring your Ryerson Photo ID to the Midterm and the Final exam.
• Grades will be assigned as per the Ryerson 2020/2021 Calendar.

• Students are required to inform their instructors of any situation which

Missed Classes arises during the semester which may have an adverse effect upon their
and/or Evalua- academic performance, and must request any considerations and accommo-
tions dations according to the relevant policies and well in advance. Failure to do
so may jeopardize any academic appeals.
• Health certificates — If a student misses the deadline for submitting an
assignment, or the date of an exam or quiz or other evaluation component
for health reasons, they should notify their instructor as soon as possible,
and submit a Ryerson Student Health Certificate AND an Academic Con-
sideration Request form within 3 working days of the missed date. Both
documents are available at www.ryerson.ca/senate/forms/medical.pdf. If you
are a full-time or part-time degree student, then you submit your forms to
your own program department or school; otherwise, you submit your forms
at the front desk of the Chang School of Continuing Education.
• Religious, Aboriginal and Spiritual observance — If a student needs
accommodation because of religious, Aboriginal or spiritual observance, they
must submit a Request for Accommodation of Student Religious, Aboriginal
and Spiritual Observance AND an Academic Consideration Request form
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within the first 2 weeks of the class or, for a final examination, within 2 weeks of
the posting of the examination schedule. If the required absence occurs within
the first 2 weeks of classes, or the dates are not known well in advance as they
are linked to other conditions, these forms should be submitted with as much
lead time as possible in advance of the required absence. Both documents
are available at http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/forms/relobservforminstr.pdf.
If you are a full-time or part-time degree student, then you submit the forms
to your own program department or school. If you are a certificate or non-
certificate student, then you submit the forms to the staff at the front desk of
the Chang School.
• Students who need academic accommodation support should register with the
Academic Accommodation Support office (formerly called the Access Centre).
Before the first graded work is due, registered students should inform their
instructors through an “Accommodation Form for Professors” that they are
registered with Academic Accommodation Support and what accommodations
are required.

Communication Ryerson email policy

with students http://www.ryerson.ca/content/dam/senate/policies/pol157.pdf
states that only Ryerson e-mail accounts are to be used for communication
with students. All students, including continuing education students, have
access to Ryerson email through their my.ryerson.ca site, and this is the official
way in which they receive communication. All students are required to register
for and maintain this account.
Emails sent from other accounts may not be answered!

Course Part I MATLAB Fundamentals and Programming (Ch. 2,3); Roundoff and
Content Truncation Errors (Ch. 4)
Part II Roots: Bisection method (Ch. 5), Newton-Raphson, and secant
method (Ch. 6)
Part III Linear Systems: Gaussian elimination (Ch. 9), LU factorization
(Ch. 10), Matrix inverse and condition (Ch. 11), Iterative methods (Ch. 12),
Eigenvalues (Ch. 13)
Part IV Curve Fitting: Linear Regression (Ch. 14), General Linear Least-
squares (Ch. 15), Polynomial Interpolation (Ch. 17), Splines and Piecewise
Interpolation (Ch. 18)
Part V Numerical Integration: trapezoidal and Simpson’s rule (Ch. 19),
Romberg Integration and Gaussian quadrature (Ch. 20); Numerical Differen-
tiation (Ch. 21)
Part VI Ordinary Differential Equations: Initial-Value problems and Linear
Systems of equations (Ch. 22), Stiff systems (Ch. 23, time permitting)
All chapter references are to the course text.
(Not all parts of all sections will be covered. See the Recommended Homework
Questions, Assignments, Labs and Lecture Notes.)
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a. Ryerson Policies of Interest

Academic
Ryerson Senate Policies - http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/
Policies
Ryerson Academic Integrity - http://www.ryerson.ca/academicintegrity/
Policy 46 - Undergraduate Grading, Promotion and Academic Standing
Policy 60 - Student Code of Academic Conduct
Policy 61 - Student Code of Non-academic Conduct
Policy 134 - Undergraduate Academic Consideration and Appeals
Policy 135 - Examination Policy
Policy 150 - Accommodation of Student Religious Observance Obligations
Policy 157 - Student Email Accounts for Official University Communication

b. Obligations — Students need to inform faculty of any situation aris-

ing during the semester which may have an adverse effect upon their
academic performance; they must request any necessary considerations (e.g.
medical or compassionate), or accommodations [e.g. religious observance,
disability (should be registered with the Access Center), etc.] according to
policies and well in advance. Failure to do so will jeopardize any academic
appeals.

c. Re-grading and Re-calculation — Must be requested within 10 working

days of the return of the graded assignment to the class.

Academic http://www.ryerson.ca/academicintegrity/
Conduct In order to create an environment conducive to learning and respectful
of other’s rights, phones and pagers must be silenced during lectures, lab
sessions and evaluations.
Students should refrain from disrupting the lectures by arriving late and/or
leaving the classroom before the lecture is finished.

Academic According to the Ryerson policy 60

Misconduct (http://www.ryerson.ca/content/dam/senate/policies/pol60.pdf),
academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:
• Plagiarism which is the claiming of words, ideas, artistry, drawings or data
of another person. This also includes submitting your own work in whole or
in part for credit in two or more courses.
• Cheating
• Misrepresentation of personal identity or performance
• Submission of false information
• Contributing to academic misconduct
• Damaging, tampering, or interfering with the scholarly environment
• Unauthorized copying or use of copyrighted materials
• Violations of departmental policies or professional behavior
• Violations of specific departmental or course requirements
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Suspicions of academic misconduct may be referred to the Academic Integrity

Office (AIO). Students who are found to have committed academic miscon-
duct will have a Disciplinary Notation (DN) placed on their academic record
(not on their transcript) and will normally be assigned one or more of the
following penalties:
• A grade reduction for the work, including a grade of zero for the work.
• A grade reduction in the course greater than a zero on the work. (Note
that this penalty can only be applied to course components worth 10% or
less, that any additional penalty cannot exceed 10% of the final course grade,
and that information explaining that such a penalty may be assigned must
be included on the course outline.)
• An F in the course
• More serious penalties up to and including expulsion from the University

The unauthorized use of intellectual property of others, including your

professor, for distribution, sale, or profit is expressly prohibited, in accordance
with Policy 60 (Sections 2.8 and 2.10). Intellectual property includes, but is
not limited to:
1. Slides
2. Lecture notes
3. Presentation materials used in and outside of class
4. Lab manuals
5. Course packs
6. Exams

For more detailed information on these issues, please refer to the Academic
Integrity policy and to the Academic Integrity Office website. As a Ryerson
student, you are responsible for familiarizing yourself with Ryerson conduct
policies.

Non-Academic Ryerson’s Student Code of Non-academic Conduct is described in Senate

Conduct Policy 61:
http://www.ryerson.ca/content/dam/senate/policies/pol61.pdf
Among many other infractions, the code specifically refers to the following as
a violation: “Disruption of Learning and Teaching - Students shall not be-
have in disruptive ways that obstruct the learning and teaching environment”.

Diversity and In this course I would like to create a learning environment that supports a
Inclusion diversity of thoughts, perspectives and experiences, and honors your identities
Statement (including race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, ability, etc.) For more infor-
mation about our University resources and services on Equity, Diversity, and
Inclusion please visit https://www.ryerson.ca/equity/

Changes Any changes to, and clarifications of, the details in this course management
form (such as room numbers, topics covered, tentative dates, etc.) will be
announced in class.