Numerical Methods with Applications

This book entitled Numerical Methods with Applications is written primarily for engineering undergraduates taking a course in Numerical Methods. The textbook offers a unique treatise to numerical methods which is based on a holistic approach and short chapters. This book is a product of many years of work on educational projects funded since 2002 by the NSF. Features: 1) Examples of real-life applications are available from seven different engineering majors. 2) Each chapter is followed by multiple-choice questions. 3) Supplemental material such as primers on differential and integral calculus and ordinary differential equations are available on the web. 4) The book has a state-of-art dedicated open courseware website with YouTube lectures extra examples PowerPoint presentations worksheets in MATLAB MATHEMATICA Maple and MathCAD anecdotes eBooks and blogs. To access the website go to http: //numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu