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Group 1

Module 2: Error and Error Propagation

Weeks 2 – 4: Review of Taylor series, Sources of errors, Floating point numbers and
operations.

Groups 2&3

Module 3: Locating Roots of Equations (Root Finding)

Weeks 5 & 6: Algorithms for root finding – bisection, Newton’s, secant. Solution of systems of
non-linear equations.

Groups 4&5

Module 4: Solving Systems of Linear Equations

Weeks 7 & 8: Basic concept of matrices (a review). Direct methods (Gaussian elimination – LU
factorization), and basic iterative methods (Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel).

Groups 6&7

Module 5: Interpolation and Numerical Integration

Weeks 9 – 11: Polynomial interpolation, piecewise polynomial and spline interpolation.


Integration of an interpolating polynomial, composite integration, and Gaussian integration

Group 8

Module 6: Numerical Differentiation and Solution of ODEs

Weeks 12 & 13: Finite differences. Runge-Kutta methods

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