Quiz 2 Review

Please use the following questions to help prepare:
  1. State Euler's explicit central difference method and explain in details how to use it for solving the heat equation.

  2. What is the Courant number and how is it related to the stability of the explicit central difference method?

  3. Define the discrete Fourier transform and its inverse.

  4. How do the number of operations needed to perform a fast Fourier transform of size n depend on n?

Last Updated: Wed Apr 16 23:29:35 PDT 2003