Weekly plans and update for week 36

Hello everybody, we hope this week also started the best possible way for you all!

Here follows a brief summary from last week as well as plans for this week and reading assignments.

Last week we discussed the Thomas algorithm, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tridiagonal_matrix_algorithm

and we discussed also how to write code in c++ and started with a discussion of pointers and how to allocate memory with c++, see the teach yourself c++ slides at http://compphysics.github.io/ComputationalPhysics/doc/pub/learningcpp/html/learningcpp-bs.html

We will start from there during Thursday's lecture and discuss how to allocate matrices and how to solve linear algebra equations using L(ower)U(pper) decomposition of matrices. This is covered in detail by the linear algebra slides at http://compphysics.github.io/ComputationalPhysics/doc/pub/linalg/html/linalg-bs.html

LU decomposition and other linear algebra methods will also be the topic for Friday's lecture. The lecture notes chapter 6 cover most of the material we will discuss. 

At the lab we will keep discussing and working on project  1. A video on how to write scientific reports (see also the slides at http://compphysics.github.io/ComputationalPhysics/doc/pub/projectwriting/html/projectwriting-bs.html)

will be posted online on Thursday. Hopefully that can be of some use when wrapping up the report.

Else, feel free to stay at other lab sessions if there is place. We would however need that you sign up so we can keep track of who was present (infection tracking). 

Best wishes to you all,

Aksel, Anders, Kaspara, Maria , Morten, Rene and Sebastian