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Academic Year: 2019/2020 Term Exam: Second Term

Biomedical
Department: Engineering and Course Code: SBE 601
Systems
Numerical
September 5th, Methods in
Date: Course Title:
2020 Biomedical
Engineering
Time: 90 minutes Full Mark: 160

This is an open-book exam but electronic devices aren’t allowed.


Question (1): True/False [30 Marks]
State whether the following statements are True or False and correct the false ones:
(a) Precision refers to how closely a computed or measured value agrees with the true value, while
accuracy refers to how closely individual computed or measured values agree with each other.
(b) Total numerical error always decreases as the step size decreases.
(c) The bisection method is always slower than the false-position method.
(d) The order of convergence in the Newton-Raphson method is linear.
(e) Descent (or ascent) unconstrained optimization requires no derivative evaluation.
(f) A naive Gauss elimination method avoids division by zero.
(g) In linear regression, the best-fit line is chosen to minimize the maximum distance that an individual
point falls from the line.
(h) Splines minimize oscillations by fitting higher-order polynomials to data in a piecewise fashion.
(i) An even-segment odd-point Newton-Cotes formula is less preferable compared to a formula with one
more point.
(j) Adaptive quadrature methods for integrating functions automatically adjust the step size so that larger
steps are taken in regions of large variations and smaller steps are taken where the function changes
smoothly.
(k) Euler’s method is more stable than the midpoint method.
(l) For numerical solution of ODEs, multistep methods change step-size depending on the region.
(m) For nonlinear ODEs, two "shots" are sufficient to get the proper initial conditions for the shooting
method of boundary-value problems.
(n) Neumann boundary conditions are those where the value of the dependent variable is given as a
constant or a function of the independent variables.
(o) Finite-difference ODE methods transform a linear differential equation into a set of simultaneous
algebraic equations.

Dr. Muhammad Rushdi

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Question (2): Roots and Optimization [25 Marks]

A. The bacteria concentration in a reservoir varies as

Perform two iterations only to calculate the time required for the bacteria concentration to be 0.5
using:
(a) the bisection method with an initial interval of , and

(b) the secant method with the initial guess of and a value of 10−6 for the perturbation
fraction.

B. Perform two iterations only of the golden-section search to find the minimum of the function

in the range

Question (3): Linear Systems [40 Marks]

A. Consider the system of equations where and .

(a) Find the solution of this system graphically. Compute the condition number of using the column-
sum norm .
(b) Solve the system of equations using Gaussian elimination.

(c) Solve again using LU decomposition, but with the system coefficients modified slightly to
and .

(d) On the basis of (a), (b), and (c), interpret the results and comment on the condition of the system.

B. Consider the system of equations 2x – 3y 20z = 25; 20x  y – 2z = 17; 3x 20y – z = – 18.

(a) Is the system diagonally dominant? If necessary, rearrange to make it diagonally dominant.
(b) Solve the system using two iterations only of the Gauss-Seidel method with no relaxation. Assume
initial variable estimates of 0, 0, and 0. Show the true error estimates for each iteration given the
exact solution

Dr. Muhammad Rushdi

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Question (4): Curve Fitting [30 Marks]
A. The pressure and volume of a gas are related by the equation , where and are
constants. Fit this equation to the following set of observations:

0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0

1.62 1.00 0.75 0.62 0.52 0.46

B. Apply Lagrange’s formula inversely to obtain a root of the equation , given that
– – and .

Question (5): Integration and Differentiation [20 Marks]


A. Evaluate the following integral

(a) analytically,
(b) with the composite trapezoidal rule with ,
(c) with a single application of Simpson’s 1/3 rule.
For each of the numerical estimates (b) and (c), determine the true percent relative error based on (a).

B. Use Richardson extrapolation to estimate the first derivative of at using step sizes of
and . Employ centered differences of for the initial estimates. Determine the
true percent relative error.

Question (6): Differential Equations [15 Marks]

Use the Runge-Kutta method of the fourth order to approximate the solution of the following initial-value
problem:
.

Given the actual solution , compare the results to the actual values.

Dr. Muhammad Rushdi

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