Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

CE-603 Numerical Methods

August 27, 2020

Homework No. 3
Find the roots of the following equation:
f ( x )  x 6  15x  3  0
Use (1) Bisection Method, and (2) Newton’s Method. In both cases, plot relative error (log
scale) versus the number of iterations and comment. Take   102   as the convergence
criterion, where  is the unit round of the machine. The exact solution is given below for
your reference.
x1  0.200 0042 6721 29
x2  1.675 6299 7745 8

[Due on September 3, 2020]