Lab Manuals

There are 5 lab projects that are part of the coursework in Math 216. You will have 5 meetings in the Instructional Computing Labs in the basement of East Hall, in place of your normal recitation meetings, on specific dates that are listed on the syllabus.

When you arrive in lab, you must bring with you, completed in advance, the corresponding prelab assignment. (Except for Lab 1 which has no prelab assignment.) During the lab period you will have an opportunity to use the computer system to work on the "in the lab" part of the assignment. A carefully prepared lab report, including all completed lab problems and a conclusions section, is due at a later date as indicated on the syllabus. If you do not finish using the computer to work the lab problems in the hour you are in the lab, you will have the time between then and the due date to finish the computer work and prepare your lab report.

The 5 lab manuals may be downloaded below. Note that the manual for Lab 4 includes color printing that may not be visible if printed on a black and white printer.

• Lab 1: Graphical Solutions to First Order Differential Equations. Using dfield7 to study direction fields in Matlab.
• Lab 2: Euler's Method and RC Circuits. Implementing Euler's method in Matlab. Modeling of simple electrical circuits.
• Lab 3: Higher-Order Numerical Methods. Implementing Higher-order numerical methods in Matlab. Comparing the accuracy of different numerical methods.
• Lab 4: Solving Differential Equations Using Maple. Using Maple to study differential equations, both symbolically and numerically.
• Lab 5: Nonlinear Systems. Using pplane7 to study phase portraits for nonlinear systems in Matlab. Predator-prey models and bifurcation analysis.