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Numerical methods for engineers : with software and programming applications / Steven C. Chapra and Raymond P. Canale.

By: Chapra, Steven C.
Contributor(s): Canale, Raymond P.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2002Edition: 4th ed.Description: xviii, 926 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0072431938 .Subject(s): Engineering mathematics -- Data processing | Numerical calculations -- Data processing | Microcomputers -- ProgrammingDDC classification: 620.00151
Contents:
Part one: Modeling, computers and error analysis -- Part two: Roots of equations -- Part three: Linear algebraic equations -- Part four: Optimization -- Part five: Curve fitting -- Part six: Numerical differentiation and integration -- Part seven: Ordinary differential equations -- Part eight: Partial differential equations.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

*Retaining its comprehensive yet accessible and user-friendly style, this edition incorporates new examples and techniques*Includes excellent applications sections with a variety of engineering problems*contains software-based examples and engineering-oriented problems

Bibliography: (pages 911-913) and index.

Part one: Modeling, computers and error analysis -- Part two: Roots of equations -- Part three: Linear algebraic equations -- Part four: Optimization -- Part five: Curve fitting -- Part six: Numerical differentiation and integration -- Part seven: Ordinary differential equations -- Part eight: Partial differential equations.

CIT Module MATH 7016 - Recommended reading

CIT Module MATH 7021 - Supplementary reading

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Part 1 Modeling, Computers, and Error Analysis
  • 1 Mathematical Modeling and Engineering Problem Solving
  • 2 Programming and Software
  • 3 Approximations and Round-Off Errors
  • 4 Truncation Errors and the Taylor Series
  • Part 2 Roots of Equations
  • 5 Bracketing Methods
  • 6 Open Methods
  • 8 Engineering Applications: Roots of Equations
  • Part 3 Linear Algebraic Equations
  • 9 Gauss Elimination
  • 10 LU Decomposition and Matrix Inversion
  • 11 Special Matrices and Gauss-Seidel
  • 12 Engineering Applications: Linear Algebraic Equations
  • Part 4 Optimization
  • 13 One-Dimensional Unconstrained Optimization
  • 14 Multidimensional Unconstrained Optimization
  • 15 Constrained Optimization
  • 16 Engineering Applications: Optimization
  • Part 5 Curve Fitting
  • 17 Least-Squares Regression
  • 18 Interpolation
  • 19 Fourier Approximation
  • 20 Engineering Applications: Curve Fitting
  • Part 6 Numerical Differentiation and Integration
  • 21 Newton-Cotes Integration Formulas
  • 22 Integration of Equations
  • 23 Numerical Differentiation
  • 24 Engineering Applications: Numerical Integration and Differentiation
  • Part 7 Ordinary Differential Equations
  • 25 Runge-Kutta Methods
  • 26 Stiffness and Multistep Methods
  • 27 Boundary-Value and Eigenvalue Problems
  • 28 Engineering Applications: Ordinary Differential Equations
  • Part 8 Partial Differential Equations
  • 29 Finite Difference: Elliptic Equations
  • 30 Finite Difference: Parabolic Equations
  • 31 Finite-Element Method
  • 32 Engineering Applications: Partial Differential Equations
  • Appendix A The Fourier Series
  • Appendix B Getting Started with Matlab
  • Bibliography
  • Index