BARRETT HODGSON UNIVERSITY

Department of Computer Science

Assignment #3- Spring2020
Course Title: Numerical Methods Course Code: MTH-302
Course Coordinator: Ms Madiha Imdad
Equally spaced Argument Interpolation

1. Find the value of y at x=43

x 40 50 60 70 80 90
y 184 204 226 250 176 304
Use Newton’s Forward Difference Formula

2. Find f(1.6) by using Stirling’s Difference Formula

x 1 1.4 1.8 2.2

y 3.49 4.82 5.96 6.5

3. Find the area of the circle when the diameter is 98 given in the following table:
x 80 85 90 95 100
y 5026 5671 6361 7088 7854

Unequally spaced Argument Interpolation

1. Find f(8) using Newton’s Dividend Difference formula

x 4 5 7 10 11 13
f(x) 48 100 294 900 1210 2028

2. Find f(9.2) using Lagrange’s interpolation method

x 9 9.5 11
f(x) 2.1972 2.2513 2.3979

3. Find y(2.5) using Lagrange’s formula

X 1 0 2 3
y 8 3 1 2

4. Find the value of tan(33) by

x 30 32 35 38
y 0.5744 0.6249 0.7002 0.7813