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Unit 1. Errors & Approximations in Numerical Computation: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling and Engineering Problem Solving. Decimal & Binary Number system. Accuracy, Precision and Significant Digits. Errors and their types.: absolute and relative errors, approximations and round off errors, truncation errors and Taylor’s series. Propagation of errors.
Unit 2. Roots of Equations: Iterative processes and their Convergence. Existence of roots in engineering practices & their geometrical representation. Roots of the equations by: Graphical Method, Method of Successive Substitution, Bisection Method, False Position Method, Newton-Raphson Method, Secant Method, Regula Falsi Method. Application to simple civil engineering problems.
Unit 3. Matrices and Determinants: Their types and basic operations. Rank of a matrix. Solution of Linear system of equations by Direct methods: Cramer’s Rule, Gaussian elimination method, Gauss-Jordan Method and Cholesky Method. Application to simple civil engineering problems.
Unit 4. Iterative Methods for solving Linear system of equations: Jacobi Method, LU decomposition and Matrix inversion, Gauss Seidel method. Application to simple civil engineering problems
Unit 5. Interpolation and Curve Fitting: Newton’s Forward Difference, Newton’s Backward Difference, Newton’s Central Difference, Newton’s Divided Difference, Lagrangian Interpolation, Hermitian Interpolation, Method of least square. Application to simple civil engineering problems.