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Taylor Polynomial and Error Bounds

1. The document provides instructions for a numerical methods homework assignment involving Taylor polynomials, fixed point iteration, Newton's method, interpolation, and Neville's method. Students are asked to approximate functions and find their roots using these numerical methods. 2. Several problems involve approximating functions at given values using techniques like Taylor polynomials, interpolation polynomials, and values from a function table. Students must also find fixed points and roots of functions iteratively. 3. The last two questions involve using Neville's method and data from a table to approximate a function and find the corresponding x-value, coefficients, and error bound.

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Taylor Polynomial and Error Bounds

1. The document provides instructions for a numerical methods homework assignment involving Taylor polynomials, fixed point iteration, Newton's method, interpolation, and Neville's method. Students are asked to approximate functions and find their roots using these numerical methods. 2. Several problems involve approximating functions at given values using techniques like Taylor polynomials, interpolation polynomials, and values from a function table. Students must also find fixed points and roots of functions iteratively. 3. The last two questions involve using Neville's method and data from a table to approximate a function and find the corresponding x-value, coefficients, and error bound.

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NUMERICAL METHODS HOMEWORK #1

Directions:
 Use the radian mode on your calculator when using the trigonometry buttons.
 Use five-digit rounding arithmetic in your calculations.

1. a. Find the third Taylor polynomial P3 ( x) for the function f ( x)  xe  cos x about x0  0.
2x

Use P3 (0.2) to approximate f (0.2) .


b. Find an upper bound for error f (0.2)  P3 (0.2) using the error formula.
Consider the following table.

x
2.a) Show that g ( x )    0.5sin   has a unique fixed point in  0, 2  .
2
b. SUse fixed-point iteration method to approximate the such fixed point starting with p0  0
that is accurate to within   10 2 .

3. a. Show that the function f ( x )  x 3  e x has a root in the interval  0.5,3 .


b. Use Newton method to find the root accurate to within   10 3 for the function above. Use
p0  2.

4. a. For the function f ( x)  (3x  2)2 , let x0  1, x1  0, x2  1 . Construct interpolating


polynomial to approximate f (0.5) .
b. Find an error bound for this approximation.

5. Find an approximation of f(0.1) and x where f(x)=0 by considering the following table

x | 0.0 0.3 0.4 0.7 0.8


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f(x) | -5 -3.75 -3.15 0.5 1.25

6. Neville’s method is used to approximate f ( x ) in the following table. So, find x, a,b,c,d
and e.

xi Qi ,0 Qi ,1 Qi ,2 Qi ,3

1 a
3 1.73 c
4 2 1.865 1.8729
6 b 1.8875 d e

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