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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS

SMA3116: ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS IV Tutorial 2 2024

1. (a) Construct the divided difference table for the data

x 0 1 2 4
f(x) 1 3 4 5

and use Newton’s method to form the interpolating polynomial of degree 3.


(b) Use the divided difference method to obtain a polynomial of least degree that
fits the values given in the following table:

x 0 1 2 -1 3
f(x) -1 -1 -1 -7 5

(c) Determine the Lagrange form of the cubic interpolating function for the given
discrete function with

f (0) = 0.5, f (0.1) = 0, f (0.3) = 0.2, f (0.5) = 1

and use the result to estimate f (0.25). [6]


R2
(d) Use Simpson’s rule to estimate the integral 1 (cosπ/2) dx by taking n = 8. [5]
(e) Find an approximate value of
Z 2
x−1 dx
1

using Simpson’s rule with h = 1/4. Give the bound on the error.
(f) Use the Bisection method to find the solution x∗ of

x = 2−x

correct to an accuracy of 10−2 , where x∗ ∈ [0, 1]. How many iterations are
needed to achieve an accuracy of 10−9
(g) Apply the Secant method to approximate the positive solution(s) of

3x2 = ex

to within 10−4 .

1
(h) Solve the following system of equations by the LU decomposition method:

3x + 5y + z = 9
9x + 17y + 3z = 29
12x + 24y + 13z = 49

(i) Obtain the Euler approximation to the solution of the initial value problem
′
y = 2y, y(0) = 1

on the interval [0,0.15], using h = 0.05. Compare your results with the analytic
solution.
(j) Solve the following initial value problem
′
y (x) = 1 + xy 2 , y(0) = 1

i. by the Euler-Cauchy method;


ii. by the Fourth-Order Runge-Kutta method
using h = 0.1 to estimate x(0.2). Compare the results.

2. Derive the following rule for estimating the third derivative

′′′ 1
f (x) ≈ [f (x + 2h) − 2f (x + h) + 2f (x − h) − f (x − 2h)]
2h3
and determine the error term.

3. Determine A, B, C and D for a formula of the form


Z h
′
Af (−h) + Bf (0) + Cf (h) = hDf + f (t)dt
−h

that is exact for polynomials of as high a degree as possible. Hence approximate


the integral
Z 1
I(f ) = ex dx
−1

4. Apply Gaussian Elimination method with scaled partial pivoting to solve the system

2x + y + z + 3w = 7
x + 4y + 3z + w = 9
2x − y − 5z + w = −3
3x − 4y + 2z + 8w = 9

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5. Apply four iterations of the Gauss-Seidel iteration method, using x0 = y0 = z0 = 1
as initialization, to solve the following system:

10x − y − z = 13
x + 10y + 3z = 36
−x − y + 10z = 35

6. Assume an elastic string with fixed ends is plucked like a guitar string. The gov-
erning equation for u(x, t), the position of the string from its equilibrium position,
is the wave equation

∂2 1 ∂2
u(x, t) = u(x, t) 0 < x < π, 0<t
∂t2 9 ∂x2
with boundary conditions u(0, t) = 0, u(π, t) = 0, t > 0 and initial conditions
∂
u(x, 0) = sin(2x), 0 < x < π and ∂t u(x, 0) = 0, 0 < x < π. Determine u(x, t).

”Essentially all models are wrong, but some are useful”– George Box

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