COMSATS University, Islamabad

Islamabad Campus
Department of Computer Science

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Assignment No. 3: Finite Difference and Interpolation
Course code and Title: CSC475, Numerical Computing
Instructor: Tanveer Ahmed
Assigned Date: November 9, 2020 Due Date: November 23, 2020
Total Marks: -- CLO-4
Instructions:
1. This is an individual assignment. You will submit your work individually through your logins
(course portal)
2. Try to get the concepts, consolidate your concepts and ideas from these questions
3. You should concern recommended books for clarify your concepts as handouts are not
sufficient.
4. Try to make solution by yourself and protect your work from other
students. If I found the solution files of some students are same, then I will
reward zero marks to all those students.
5. Deadline for this assignment is November 23, 2020. This deadline will not be extended.

Question # 1 (Difference Operators)

a) Evaluate the following:

b) Prove the following relations

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Question # 2
a) f(x) is polynomial in x with the following functional values: f (2) = f (3) = 27, f (4) =
78, f (5) = 169. Find the function f(x).
b)

c)

Question # 3
a) Compute the missing terms in the following table:

b) Following Table gives the values of a polynomial of degree five. It is given that f (4) is
in error. Correct the value of f (4).

Question # 4
Estimate the population for the year 1905 from the following table using appropriate
Newton’s formula for interpolation:

Question # 5
From the following table of half- yearly premium for policies maturing at different ages.
Estimate the premium for policies maturing at the age of 63.

Question # 6
Find a polynomial which passes the points (0, –12), (1, 0), (3, 6), (4, 12) using
i. Lagrange’s interpolation formula
ii. Newton’s Divided Difference formula
Question # 7

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Question # 8

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