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Lab 4 Solving Roots of Equations and Polynomials Using Packages and MATLAB

This document discusses using Excel and MATLAB to solve equations and find polynomial roots. It provides 3 examples of using Excel's goal seek and solver functions to locate roots of equations by trial and error or simultaneously solving two functions. It also demonstrates using MATLAB's fzero and roots functions to determine the single and multiple roots of equations and polynomials, including examples of finding the roots of a 10th order polynomial and 5th order polynomial.

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Lab 4 Solving Roots of Equations and Polynomials Using Packages and MATLAB

This document discusses using Excel and MATLAB to solve equations and find polynomial roots. It provides 3 examples of using Excel's goal seek and solver functions to locate roots of equations by trial and error or simultaneously solving two functions. It also demonstrates using MATLAB's fzero and roots functions to determine the single and multiple roots of equations and polynomials, including examples of finding the roots of a 10th order polynomial and 5th order polynomial.

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LAB 4

Solving roots of equations


and polynomials using
packages and MATLAB

EXCELL (ref to page 190)

Use EXCELL to locate roots of function by trial and error.


Examples 1;
1.) determine roots of f(x) = x cos x
Step 1. enter the x value in a cell of the spreadsheet.

Step 2. Introduce f(x) formulation in the cell


and used the listed x value from the first cell to determine the f(x)
value.
Step 3. Varies the x value until f(x) cell approaches zero.
Step 4. use Goal Seek function to locate the roots.

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Examples 2;
Determine single root of using Goal Seek Function
f(x) = x cos x
Key in the required data in the worksheet.
Go to Data Tools.
What-If-Analysis
Goal Seek
Goal seek table will appear
Answer the required questions

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Examples 3;
Determine roots of U(x,y) and V(x,y) simultaneously
using solver function.

U(x,y) = x2 + xy -10 = 0
V(x,y) = y + 3xy2 -57 = 0
initial values of x = 1 and y = 3.5
True value x = 2 and y = 3

Solution;
Step 1 Enter the initial values of x and y in the worksheet.
Step 2 Enter functions U and V in the worksheet.
Step 3 Enter sum of square of the functions U and V values.
(The result should be zero). If the value is not zero, the
function Solver can be used from the Tools menu.
Step 4 Use the function Solver and give the required
information.

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MATLAB(refer to page 193)

The fzero function to locate one root of a single


function.
The syntax is;
fzero(f,xo,options)
where f is the function
xo is the initial guess
options are the optimization parameters

Example 1
Use MATLAB function fzero to find the roots of;
f(x) = x10 1
With the interval of xl = 0 and xu = 4.
The true roots are at x = -1 and 1.
Use the initial guesses of 0 and 1.3 to determine
the positive root.

With 2 initial guesses


>>xo = [0 1.3];
>>x=fzero(inline(x^10-1),xo)
x=
-1
with one initial guess:
>>xo = 0;
>>x=fzero(inline(x^10-1),xo)
x=
-1

Use MATLAB to determine the roots of


polynomials
Example 2
Determine the roots of polynomial of the
following equation;
f(x) = x5 3.5x4 + 2.75x3 + 2.125x2 - 3.875x + 1.25

>>a=[1 -3.5 2.75 2.125 -3.875 1.25];


to evaluate the polynomial function;
>>polyval(a,1)
ans =
-0.2500

to diffferentiate the polynomial;


>>polyder(a)
ans =
5.0000 -14.0000 8.2500 4.2500 -3.8750
to determine roots of the polynomial;
>>r = roots(a)
r=

Thank You

By
Nor Sharliza Mohd Safaai

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