MA 202 Numerical Methods in Engineering Assignment # 1

(Due by Monday 13th 2014)

1. Obtain the second degree polynomial approximation of over [0,1] by means of Taylor expansion about . Obtain . Obtain a bound of the error in the same interval. 2. Obtain the polynomial approximation of over [0,1] by means of Taylor expansion about . Find the number of terms required in the expansion to obtain an approximation to the value e correct to 10-5. 3. Find roots of the following equations in the indicated intervals using bisection method and method of false position: a. in the interval *0,1+ (use an error tolerance =0.008) b. The smallest positive root of tolerance =0.0001) c. tolerance =0.01) 4. Find an approximation to correct to 10-4 using bisection and Newtons methods. Compare both the methods in terms of number of iterations required to achieve the same level of accuracy. 5. If the bisection method is used on an interval of length h to find approximate solution cn with error |cn-|<10-5 then determine the least value of n that will assure the accuracy. 6. Use Newtons method to find roots of following equations: a. b. 7. Consider . Find the root using Newtons method using an initial guess of x0=0.75. What is your observation? Show the behavior graphically (by plotting f(x)). 8. . Obtain the root which is accurate up to 9 significant digits using Newtons method with x0=1.0 and 2.0. What is your observation? 9. Write MATLAB code for Bisection/False Position Methods and test for the problems in Q3. 10. Write MATLAB code for Newtons Method and test it for the problems in Q6, 7 and 8. on each interval [-2,-1], [0,2], [2,3] & [-1,0] (use an error in the interval [0,1] (use an error

(You will submit your hand written solutions during the tutorial hour in week-3. You need to attach the MATLAB codes too along with your assignment solution)