Week 5 Worked Examples

Worked solutions for Week 5 geometry optimisation exercises:

• Grid Search Method

• Gradient Descent Method

• Newton-Raphson Method

• Synoptic Exercise: Lennard-Jones Optimisation

• scipy.optimize.minimize()

How to use these worked examples:

• Try each exercise yourself first before looking at the solution

• Each notebook corresponds to exercises from a specific course page

• Download the notebooks to run the code yourself and experiment

• Your solution might look different - that’s fine as long as it gives the correct answer!