Lecture Hours: Every Wednesday 1:30pm-2:15pm at our Departmental Computer Laboratory (RM 232A, LSB)

Lab Hours: Every Wednesday 2:30pm-4:00pm at our Departmental Computer Laboratory (Rm 232A, LSB)

Office Hours: Every Wednesday 11:00am-noon, please send me an email (rchan@math.cuhk.edu.hk) or call me first (2609-7970), if possible.

About the Lecturer: Raymond Chan

About the Tutors:
H.F. Chan
Y.Q. Dong
J.Z. Li
Z.X. Wang

Why study Matlab?

Matlab is ubiquitous. If you need computing in your research, you cannot avoid using Matlab.

• Matlab course in a physics department

• Matlab course in a chemical engineering department

• Matlab course in computer and information sciences department

• ...

Course Objective: This course is intended to teach numerical computing, symbolic computing, and graphical visualization through the use of mathematical and computational software so as to familiarize the students with computing skills.

Course Format: Material related to the laboratory will be introduced, explained and demonstrated in the lecture. Students then use matlab in the lab to get the answers required on the lab assignment sheet.

Textbooks:

• Linear Algebra Labs with MATLAB, 3/E, by David Hill and David Zitarelli. Some of the lectures are taken out from this book.
• Symbolic Math Toolbox, by Mathworks itself. We will use this book for the symbolic computation part.

• Matlab teaching materials at Sheffield University. A concise guide on Matlab.
• Matlab online help by Mathworks. A complete guide on Matlab.
• Introduction to Scilab. A complete guide on Scilab.

Teaching schedule:

• Week 1: What is Matlab and Matlab Demo
• Week 2: Matlab Basics and Matrix Operations
• Week 3: Markov Chain (Section 3.4) and Reduced Echelon (Section 4.2)
• Week 4: Determinant (Section 8.1), Inner Product (Section 9.1), and Norm (Section 9.2)
• Week 5: Logical Flow
• Week 6: Scripts
• Week 7: Functions
• Week 8 (Oct 25): In-class Quiz 1 (We still have the lab class after the quiz).
• Week 9: 2D Graphics
• Week 10: 3D Graphics
• Week 11: File I/O
• Week 12: Structure Arrays
• Week 13: Cell Arrays
• Dec 6: Quiz 2 (1:30pm-2:15pm, and no lab class after the quiz)

Assessment Scheme:

• Lab assignments: 60 marks
  
• Two homework assignments: 10 marks (Weeks 8 and 12)
  
• Two 45-minute in-class, open-book quizzes = 2 * 15 marks = 30 marks
  

Important Remarks:

• If you are found cheating (in the quizzes or in the programming assignments), you will automatically get an F grade in this course and your act will be reported to the Department for necessary disciplinary actions.
• To avoid copying of programs, your programs may be spot-checked, i.e. you will be asked questions regarding the statements in your program.
• Please don't let others copy your programs or results as we don't have a way to tell who is copying who and you may be liable to the penalties.