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18.085 Mathematical Methods for Engineers I, Fall 2002

The mesh was created using the truss model in Section 2.4 of the text; color shows distance to the boundary.
This image comes from "A Simple Mesh Generator in MATLAB®" submitted to SIAM Review. The mesh was created using the truss model in Section 2.4 of the text; color shows distance to the boundary. (Image created by Per-Olof Persson; the code and the paper are available on the web.)

Highlights of this Course

This course features a strong connection to Professor Strang's textbook Introduction to Applied Mathematicshomework filesexams, and video lectures.

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Course Description

Review of linear algebra, applications to networks, structures, and estimation, Lagrange multipliers, differential equations of equilibrium, Laplace's equation and potential flow, boundary-value problems, minimum principles and calculus of variations, Fourier series, discrete Fourier transform, convolution, applications.


Technical Requirements

RealOne Player software is required to run the .rm files found on this course site.

 

MATLAB® is a trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.

 

Staff

Instructor:
Prof. Gilbert Strang

Course Meeting Times

Lectures:
Three sessions / week
1 hour / session

Level

Graduate

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