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MCSC 202 Assignment: Error Analysis

This document contains an assignment with 12 math and calculus problems involving rounding numbers, calculating sums, finding differences, relative and percentage errors, and propagation of uncertainty. Students are asked to round numbers to various decimal places, find sums and differences, compute relative and percentage errors given absolute errors, evaluate functions using Maclaurin polynomials, and determine absolute errors when combining measurements with associated uncertainties. The assignment is due one week from the issue date.

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MCSC 202 Assignment: Error Analysis

This document contains an assignment with 12 math and calculus problems involving rounding numbers, calculating sums, finding differences, relative and percentage errors, and propagation of uncertainty. Students are asked to round numbers to various decimal places, find sums and differences, compute relative and percentage errors given absolute errors, evaluate functions using Maclaurin polynomials, and determine absolute errors when combining measurements with associated uncertainties. The assignment is due one week from the issue date.

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Issue Date: Due Date: One week from the issue date

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ASSIGNMENT - I
Course: MCSC 202
Problem 1 Round off the following numbers to four decimal places:
(a) 0.235082 (b) 0.0022218 (c) 4.50089 (d) 2.36425 (e) 1.3456

Problem 2 Find the sum of the numbers 1.3526, 2.00462, 1.532, 28.201, 31.0012 when each of them
are correct to their last digit.
√ √
Problem 3 Find the difference 2.01 − 2 to three correct digits.

Problem 4 Find the relative erro in computation of x − y for x = 12.05 and y = 8.02 having absolute
errors 4x = 0.005 and 4y = 0.001.

Problem 5 If y = 4x6 − 5x, find the percentage error in y at x = 1 if the error in x is 0.04.

Problem 6 Round off the number 865230 to four significant figures and compute the absolute, relative
and percentage errors occur.

Problem 7 Round off the number 47.5689 to four significant figures and then compute the absolute,
relative, and percentage errors occur.

Problem 8 The computing value of a problem as 68.91. The relative error in the computing values is at
most 2%. Find to four decimal places the range within which the exact value must lie.

Problem 9 If u = 4x2 y 3 /z 4 and errors in x, y, z be 0.001. Compute the maximum relative error in u
when x = y = z = 1.

Problem 10 Compute the following with regard to significant figures:


(a) 876 ÷ 0.4382

(b) 8.0 − 0.42


(c) 4.6 × 0.128
(d) 56.54 × 12.4
0.995×1.53
(e) 1.592

1.2651(10.215−2.543)
(f ) 47.3

x cos x−sin x
Problem 11 Let f (x) = x−sin x

(a) Use four-digit rounding arithmetic to evaluate f (0.1).


(b) Replace each trigonometric function with its third Maclaurin polynomial, and repeat part (a).
(c) The actual value of f (0.1) = −1.99899998. Find the relative error for the values obtained in parts
(a) and (b).

Problem 12 Given that a = 10.00 ± 0.05; b = 0.0356 ± 0.0002; c = 15300 ± 100; d = 62000 ± 500. Find
the value of the absolute error in (i) a + b + c + d (ii) a + 5c − d (iii) c3

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