Homework 1

• hw1.pdf

The homework is due by 11:00pm PDT on January 19, 2017. You can turn it in up to 24 hours late with a 10% reduction in credit.

The latex file for this homework assignment is in the Class GitHub Repository in the directory homeworks/hw1. You are encouraged to use latex to do the homework, in which case you might want to start with this file. There are some comments in the file indicating where in add your solutions.

If necessary you can hand write and scan parts of it, and scan hand-drawn figures.

There is a Jupyter notebook to get you started on Problem 3.2 in the class repository on Github, in the file $AM574/notebooks/Riemann_problem_linear_system.ipynb (see Class GitHub Repository).

You can see a static view of this notebook on Github:

• https://github.com/amath574w2017/am574-class/tree/master/notebooks

Or run the notebook on Microsoft Azure Notebooks (see Running notebooks on the Windows Azure notebook server):

• https://notebooks.azure.com/library/pLLBjDTqA7s

See also the tutorial video on notebooks in Lecture videos and slides.

To submit, see the Canvas page.