Weekly plans and update for week 37

Hi everybody, here follows (somewhat late) our weekly summary from last week and updates for this week.

Last week we discussed in more detail c++ technicalities like dynamic memory allocation and handling of matrices and vectors as well as discussing LU decomposition in more detail. This material os covered by the lecture notes chapter 6, in particular chapter 6.4, see https://github.com/CompPhysics/ComputationalPhysics/blob/master/doc/Lectures/lectures2015.pdf and the slides at http://compphysics.github.io/ComputationalPhysics/doc/pub/linalg/html/._linalg-bs000.html

We started also a discussion of iterative methods (chapter 6.6 of the lecture notes) and we will finalize that on Thursday and before we venture into project 2 (which is available at for example http://compphysics.github.io/ComputationalPhysics/doc/Projects/2020/Project2/html/Project2-bs.html), we will also discuss how to interpolate with spline methods, see chapter 6.5 of the lecture notes. The second lecture on Thursday deals with project 2.

Friday we start discussing eigenvalue problems and the basic mathematics of project 2 using Jacobi's method for finding eigenvalues, see chapters 7.1-7.3 of the above lecture notes and the slides on eigenvalue problems http://compphysics.github.io/ComputationalPhysics/doc/pub/eigvalues/html/._eigvalues-bs000.html. 

Else, we remind you that the zoom link for the digital lectures is 

Topic: Lectures FYS3150/4150
https://msu.zoom.us/j/94045827673?pwd=YVNNaENDaTBjaEQyVnNySUJkRXBZZz09

Meeting ID: 940 4582 7673
Passcode: 606654

The zoom link for digital lab 4 is

https://uio.zoom.us/j/62575854548

The zoom link for digital lab 9

https://msu.zoom.us/j/96666598091?pwd=RzkyMU5vbU11SmN2MzVSN2Jiazh0QT09

Meeting ID: 966 6659 8091
Passcode: 058560

These are recurring links for the whole semester. Keep also in mind that labs 7 and 8  on Fridays from 14 to 18 are open to everybody as long as you register your name at the lab sessions.

All the best to you all,

the teaching gang.