NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS

SMA3116: ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS 1V

OCTOBER 2019: TUTORIAL 111

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1. Verify that when Newton-Raphson method is used to compute R,the sequence of
1 R
µ ¶
iterates is defined by xn+1 = xn +
2 xn
!2
x2n − R
Ã
2. Show that if the sequence xn is defined as above, then x2n+1 − R =
2xn
3. Use Lagrange interpolating formula inversely to obtain a root of f (x) = 0 to 3
decimal places given that f (−2) = −31, f (−1) = −5, f (1) = 1, f (2) = 11.

4. Use Lagrange interpolating process to obtain a polynomial of least degree and

estimate f (1.5) to 4 decimal places given that f (−1) = 3, f (0) = −4, f (1) =
5, f (2) = −6.

5. Use appropriate Lagrange interpolating polynomials of degrees 1, 2, 3, 4 to ap-

proximate f (2.5) if f (2.0) = 0.5103757, f (2.2) = 0.5207843, f (2.4) = 0.5104147, f (2.6) =
0.4813306, f (2.8) = 0.4359160

6. From a table of logarithms we obtain the following values of log x at the indicated
tabular points:
x 1 1.5 2 3 3.5 4
log x 0 0.17609 0.30103 0.47712 0.54407 0.60206
Form a divided-difference table based on this table. Interpolate to obtain a value
for log 1.2 using third degree interpolation polynomials in Newton form.
Z
x2
1
7. Evaluate the integral √ correct to 3 decimal places using the trapezoidal
0 1 + x2
rule and the simpson ’s rule. Estimate the error at each stage.
Z 2
πx
8. Use simpson’s rule to estimate the integral )dx taking n = 8 . Calculate
cos(
1 2
(b − a)5 (4)
the error and compare this with that given by − f (c).
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9. Solve the following initial value problem x0 (t) = 1 + x2 t, x(0) = 1, by applying
the second order Taylor series method with h = 0.1 to estimate x(0.2).

10. Obtain the Euler approximation to the solution of the initial value problem y 0 =
2y, y(0) = 1 on [0, 0.15], using h = 0.03. Compare results with the exact solution.

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11. Using the Runge-Kutta method of order four solve the initial value problem y 0 =
−2xy 2 , y(0) = 1 from x = 0 to x = 0.9 with h = 0.3.

12. Solve the following initial value problem x0 (t) = 1 + x2 t, x(0) = 1.

(a) by applying two steps of the Euler method;

(b) by applying the second order Taylor series method,
(c) by applying the RK4 method.

using h = 0.1 to estimate x(0.2). Compare the results.

13. Apply Euler’s method with h = 0.1 and n = 2 in order to obtain the approximations
for solution to each of the following systems:

(a) y 0 = 2y − 8z, z 0 = y + 6z, y(0) = 4z(0) = 1.

(b) y = 2y + xy,
0
z = yz,
0
y(0 = 1, z(0) = 1.

14. Use the Runge-Kutta method of order four, with h = 0.2 and n = 2 to approximate
the solution to the following systems:

(a) y 0 = 6y − 4z, z 0 = y + 2z, y(0) = 2, z(0) = 3

(b) xy 0 = 2y + 3z, xz 0 = 2y + z, y(1) = 4, z(1) = 1

15. Write each of the following second order initial value problems as a system of two
first order equations, and then apply both the Euler method (with h = 0.1 and
n = 4) and the Runge-Kutta method (with h = 0.2 and n = 4 to obtain the
approximations of the solutions.

(a) y 00 − y 0 + 8y = x, y(0) = −1, y 0 (0) = 4

(b) y 00 = 14x2 − sin(y) + y 0 , y(0) = −2, y 0 (0) = 4

16. Use Taylors’s approximation to find the solutions of the following initial value
problems. Carry out three steps using step size of h = 0.1

(a) y 00 + 4y 0 + 4y = 18xe−2x , y(0) = 1, y 0 (0) = −2

(b) y 00 = 2 − z 2 + e−y + y 0 , y(0) = y 0 (0) = 0