Office: Knott Hall 301d
Phone: 410-617-2710
Office Hours: MWF 1:00-2:00 PM or by appointment
Email: pchidyagwai@loyola.edu

Course Syllabus

MATLAB information:

1. WORKSPACE: You can access MATLAB through Workspace from any Windows or MAC computer with internet access. Go to https://workspace.loyola.edu/SAAS/auth/login" and login using your Loyola username and password. You can also acess Workspace through the "Applications" tab on the Inside Loyola page. Once you login into Workspace, scroll down until you see the MATLAB icon
2. I encourage you to use your network G:\ Drive to store your files. This is backed up regularly and accessible from any Loyola computer. If you are off campus, you can access your files via WORKSPACE. You can learn more about accessing your network driver from this Technology Services Link
3. MATH-STAT computer lab (KH 318): The computers in KH 318 have MATLAB locally installed. You have card access to this lab.
4. PURCHASE MATLAB: You can purchase a student version of MATLAB from Mathworks for $99. I highly recommend this option if you are considering going to graduate school or are interested in using MATLAB in the future.
Do not hesitate to email me if you have any difficulties installing or running MATLAB.

MATLAB Tutorials:

• A Beginner's guide to MATLAB by Dr. Xenophontos
• An easy to read introduction
• MATLAB Primer by Mathworks (complete manual)

Assignments:

• Homework 1 (matlab.mat) (due Friday, 25 January)
• Homework 2 (loyola.jpg) (due Wednesday, 6 February)
• Homework 3 (due Wednesday, 27 February)
• Project (due Tuesday, 19 March)
• Homework 4 (due Wednesday, 3 April)
• Quiz2 (solutions)
• Homework 5 (monthly_data.txt)
• Final Project (yoda.m) (yodapose_low.mat)(due Saturday, 4 May)

Lecture Notes:

• Week 1 -- Introduction to Matlab (demo_script.m)
• Week 2 -- Matrix and Array Operations (image_demo.m, image)
• Week 3 -- Plotting(plotting_demo.m,plot3d_demo.m) MATLAB plotting documentation
• Week 4 -- Progamming in Matlab (calcarea.m, stat.m, myfun.m,run_myfun.m) Flow control (geom_series.m, forloop_demo.m,subplot_loop_demo.m)
• Week 5 -- Flow control (loop_example1.m,loop_example2.m,quadratic_solve.m,quadratic_solve2.m)
  • Quiz 1 practice
• Week 6 -- Defining mathematical functions
• Week 7 -- Newton's method Initial Value Problems
  • Quiz 2 practice
• Week 8 -- Complex Numbers (chaos.m)
• Week 10 -- Linear Transformations (linear_trans.m)(connect_dots.m)
• Week 11 -- Numerical integration
• Week 12 -- File input output (C02 emissions data)(data_set1.txt)
• Week 13 -- Interpolation (lagrangepp.m)(eval_lag.m)(image) (interpolation2D_demo.m)