Entry requirements

General entry requirements and Mathematics 4 or Mathematics D

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• use the MATLAB environment in an efficient way;
• write well structured programs in MATLAB;
• choose appropriate built-in functions and use these functions to solve computational problems and for visualizing results;
• go from an application problem and mathematical model to MATLAB code;
• summarise results from MATLAB, such as graphics and code in a lucid way.

Content

The MATLAB environment, data types, built-in functions and arithmetic expressions, MATLAB files (m-files, mat-files), import and export between MATLAB and other formats. How to write your own programs and to go from a problem to programming code. Fundamental programming structures (if, for och while), script files and functions. Writing your own functions and to write code structured in several subprograms, parameter passing, the algorithm concept. Error handling using try-catch.

Computations in MATLAB: linear equations systems, least squares fit, interpolation, roots of functions, ordinary differential equations, and integrals.

Instruction

The course is web based distance course, and all communication and instructions are web based. The language of instruction is Swedish.

Assessment

Compusory assignments. A special assignment or take-home exam is offered for higher grades.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.