Syllabus
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Course Code: DSES3-519 Course Name: Numerical Methods and Fundamentals of Computers |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Numerical Methods: Concept of interpolation and extrapolation, difference tables for operators, forward, backward and shift, and their relationship , methods of interpolation, Newton’s formula for forward and backward interpolation with equal intervals, factorial notations, equiate distant terms wit h one or more missing terms. | |
| 2 | Divided differences and their properties, Newton formula for unequal intervals, Lagrange’s method of interpolation, Numerical integration, General quadrature formula for equidistant ordinates, Trapezoidal rule, Simpson’s rd 1/3 and th 3/8 formulae. | |
| 3 | Basics of Computer: Introduction, origin, development, uses and limitation of
computers. Types of computers, computer structure, input-unit, CPU, output
unit, secondary storage, High Level and low level languages, compiler and
interpreter. Computer Arithmetic: Floating point representation of numbers, arithmetic operations with normalized floating point numbers. Number systems- Binar y, decimal, octal and hexadecimal number systems and their conversions into each other. Binary arithmetic’s, (Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division). |
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| 4 | Flow charts and Algorithms: Concepts of flow chart, algorithm and programming. Flow charts and algorithms for the following: Mean, median, mode, variance, covariance, coefficient of correlation and Straight line fitting. Trapezoidal rule, Simpson’s 1/3 and 3/8t h rules. Elementary idea of statistical software: SPSS |
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