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Numerical Computations

Course Instructor: Shumaila Noreen

FA18-CHE-B
Timings: Mon, 1:00 - 2:30 P.M
Fri, :2:30 - 4:00 P.M
Course Contents
Week 1 : Introduction to Numerical methods
Error Analysis

Course Book: Numerical methods using MATLAB (John H. Mathews


and Kurtis D. Fink, 4th Ed., Prentice Hall).
Reference Books: Numerical Methods for Engineers by Steven C.
Chapra & Raymond P. Canale (McGraw Hill), Numerical Recipes (S. A.
Teukolsky, W. T. Vetterling, & B. P. Flannery, 3rd Ed., Cambridge).
Introduction of numerical methods

• Analytical methods / Traditional methods

• Numerical methods / Approximate methods


Examples
 

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3) Transcendental equations

=0
Definition of an error

Sources of errors
Gross Errors
Rounding Errors

56.44 56.4

56.48 56.5

56.45 56.4

56.15 56.2
Truncation errors
Absolute, relative and percentage errors

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