Ministry of Higher Education

Higher Technological Institute

10th of Ramadan City – 6th of October Branch
Department of Basic Sciences

Term: Jan. / May 2022 Code: MTH 103

Subject: Numerical Methods Group: 1 & 2 & 91 & 92

Assignment (2)
"All work which you hand in should be your own"

[I] Use Taylor expansion about xo = 0 to approximate a fourth Taylor polynomial to

0.5

f(x) = ln(1+2x), hence approximate ln(1.07) and  ln(1  2x ) dx

0
; find the absolute error and

error bound for these approximations.

[II] Find a quadratic Lagrange interpolating polynomial for ( ) ( )

using equally spaced nodes; hence approximate ( ); find the error in this
approximation.

[III] Let , and ; use Lagrange interpolation to construct

polynomials of degree two for the following functions; hence use it to approximate ( );
find the absolute error and error bound for these approximations.

(a) ( ) ( ) (b) ( ) √ (c) ( )

[IV] Obtain the 2nd Taylor polynomial of the function ( ) √ about (xo = 0); hence
1

approximate 
0
3 x  4 dx ; find the error bound for this approximation.

[V] Let , and ; use Newton's divided- difference formula

to construct polynomials of degree three for the following functions; hence use it to
approximate ( ) ( ); find the actual error in these approximations.

( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

[VI] Given the following data; use the suitable Newton's difference formula to approximate f
(0.27), f (0.64), and f (0.98).

x 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1

f (x) 0.979865 0.91771 0.808034 0.638609 0.384373

………………………………………………………….……………………………………. Good Luck