Schedule of Classes and Topics

Class	Day	Date	Lecture Topic	Exercise
1	W	Sep 9	Introduction	-
2	F	Sep 11	NumPy	Exercise 1
3	W	Sep 16	Matplotlib and PyPlot	Exercise 2
4	F	Sep 18	Python Programming	Exercise 3
5	W	Sep 23	Iteration	Exercise 4
6	F	Sep 25	Interpolation	Exercise 5
7	W	Sep 30	Numerical Integration	Exercise 6
8	F	Oct 2	Random Numbers	Exercise 7
9	W	Oct 7	Normal Distribution	Exercise 8
10	F	Oct 9	Monte Carlo Model of Comet Dust	Project 1
11	W	Oct 14	Least Squares Fit to a Line	Exercise 9
12	F	Oct 16	Errors and Least Squares Fits	-
13	W	Oct 21	Linear Least Squares Fits	Exercise 10
14	F	Oct 23	Work Day in Class	-
15	W	Oct 28	Fitting the LMT Pointing Model	Project 2
16	F	Oct 30	First Order Differential Equations	Exercise 11
17	W	Nov 4	Second Order Differential Equations	Exercise 12
18	F	Nov 6	Second Order Runge-Kutta	Exercise 13
-	W	Nov 11	No Class (MONDAY SCHEDULE)	-
19	F	Nov 13	Guest Lecture on Python	-
20	W	Nov 18	Fourth Order Runge-Kutta and Orbits	Exercise 14
21	F	Nov 20	Project 3 - Comet Dust Tails	Project 3 - Updated Dec 10
22	W	Nov 25	NO CLASS - HAPPY THANKSGIVING!	-
-	F	Nov 27	THANKSGIVING BREAK	-
23	W	Dec 2	Object Oriented Programming in Python	Exercise 15
24	F	Dec 4	Partial Differential Equations	Exercise 16
25	W	Dec 9	Work Day	-
26	F	Dec 11	Partial Differential Equations - Lecture 2	-

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