1. Which of the following statement is incorrect about numerical methods?

Explain your
answer.
i. Numerical methods can be used to solve any differential equation.
ii. The analytical solution of differential equations is generally very difficult to
obtain and hence numerical methods are used to solve the same.
iii. The solution obtained by numerical methods is always exact solution.
2. What do you understand by Factorial notation? To show that
n ( n) n n+1 n
Δ x =n !h and Δ x =0
2
Δu x Δ2 u x

3. What is the difference between

( )
Eux
and
( )
E 2 ux
?

4. Construct a diagonal difference table for the following set of values:

x:0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
y : 625 81 1 1 81 625 2401 65611
5. The following data gives the distance in nautical miles of the visible horizon for the given heights
in feet above the earths surface.
Height :x 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
Distance:y 10.63 13.03 15.04 16.81 18.42 19.90 21.27 Find y when x
= 218 ft. and when x = 410 ft.?
6. Write an introduction on numerical differentiation and integration.
dy
=1+ xy 2
7. The following differential equation dx with initial condition y(0)=1, is solved
by Euler”s method with step size h=0.1. Which is the acceptable error in solution
i. 0.00145 ii. 0.0045 iii. 0.00728
8. Use the fourth order Runge-Kutta method to solve the following first order ordinary differential
dy
+2 y=2
equation: dx with a given condition y(0) =2. Compare the errors of Ist and 2 nd
solution with the exact solution.
9. Discuss the merits and demerits of bisection method and Newton-Raphson method. Calculate
3
√7 , starting from x = 2 and performing 4 steps.
10. i) What is the difference between algebraic and transcendental equations?
ii) Why we are using numerical iterative methods for solving equations?
iii) Based on which principle, the bisection and regula-falsi method is developed?