[GEOE 359] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (13 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geological Engineering Courses
• Course: GEOE 359
• Professor: Georgia Fotopoulos

Document Summary

By the end of the course you should be able to: Introduction to matlab and review of linear algebra. During this lecture a quiz was given, the following outlines some of the concepts asked in the quiz. Is a quantity calculated to indicate the extent of deviation for a group as a whole a. k. a a measure of how spread out numbers are. It is the square root of the variance: the average of the squared differences from the mean, to calculate the varience: For each number: subtract the mean and square the results (this is known as squared difference) Work out the average of the squares. For more information including examples check out: http://www. mathsisfun. com/data/standard-deviation. html. Geoid = mean sea level at any point on earth. H(geiod) = h(gps) n(height of geoid above ellipsoid h. Are ways to quantify, predict, dissect, and model. Is the development and analysis/study of algorithms (methods, techniques) for obtaining numerical solutions to mathematical problems.