Question: 04-12-2010: What is the due date? How should I submit it?
Answer: This assignment is due at 4:00pm on Monday, April 26. Late penalties begin at 4:01. There are two acceptable ways to submit it: (1) Give it to me in the classroom, before class begins. (2) Deliver it to my office, any time prior to when I leave for class on the due date. (Slide it under the door if I am not there.) Do not put it in my mailbox, and do not leave it in my office after I leave for class on the due date. Email submission is acceptable only in "emergencies".
Question: 04-12-2010: What are the point values for the challenges?
Answer:
35 points total.
Challenge 1: 8 points for plot and u(-0.4,0.1) value.
Challenge 2a: 8 points for program and 3 points for plot, max temperature
and the point at which it occurs.
Challenge 2b: 3 points for plot, 5 points for program, 8 points for
justification. (Write a well-reasoned paragraph that discusses all
of the sources of error.)
Question: 04-12-2010: What should I submit?
Answer: This is discussed in the challenges.
Grading notes:
Question: 04-14-2010 The equations for Challenge 2 don't involve t.
Answer: This is a bad set of typos. I'm very sorry. Please see the reposted assignment, with changes marked in green.
Question: 04-15-2010 Does everything start out at room temperature?
Answer: Yes.
Question: 04-19-2010 In Challenge 2, on my machine, Matlab runs out of memory.
Answer: OK. Indicate on your submission that you don't have enough memory to refine the mesh 4 times and just refine it 3 times, or 2, or whatever you can do.
Your temperature graph might be a bit bumpy, though.
Question: 04-23-2010 When I run parabolic, it never returns.
Answer: Check that you set c and f to row vectors, not column vectors.
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