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UECM1693/UECM2623/UGCM2623 Tutorial N2: Solution of Equations

This document provides examples of using different numerical methods like the intermediate value theorem, fixed point method, bisection method, false position method, and Newton-Raphson method to find approximate roots of equations. It gives the equations, intervals to search, and number of iterations required. The methods are applied to find roots of equations involving exponential, cubic, trigonometric, quadratic and other functions. Approximate answers are provided to varying degrees of accuracy depending on the problem.

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UECM1693/UECM2623/UGCM2623 Tutorial N2: Solution of Equations

This document provides examples of using different numerical methods like the intermediate value theorem, fixed point method, bisection method, false position method, and Newton-Raphson method to find approximate roots of equations. It gives the equations, intervals to search, and number of iterations required. The methods are applied to find roots of equations involving exponential, cubic, trigonometric, quadratic and other functions. Approximate answers are provided to varying degrees of accuracy depending on the problem.

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Tutorial N2: Solution of Equations

1. The equation x = 0.5e−x has exactly one root, say, r. Use the Intermediate Value Theorem
to show that r ∈ (0.3, 0.4). Then use the fixed-point method to find r to four decimal places.
Answer: 0.3517

2. Use the bisection method to approximate the real root of the equation x3 + 2x − 6 = 0 that is
located in the interval [1, 2]. Your answer should be accurate to two decimal places.
Note 1 : An approximation is said to be accurate to k decimal places if the magnitude of the
error is less than 0.5 × 10−k .
Note 2 : After n iterations of the bisection algorithm, with [a, b] as the initial interval, an
approximate root for the equation f (x) = 0 will have been computed with an error of at most

b−a
, n ≥ 1.
2n
Answer: 1.4571

3. Apply three iterations of the false position method to approximate the root of the equation
cos(x) + 1 − x = 0 that is located in the interval [1, 2].
Answer: 1.2834

4. The curve y = 2x3 + x2 − x + 1 intersects the x−axis at exactly one point. Use the Newton-
Raphson method to find the x-coordinate of this point of intersection. Continue until two
successive approximations differ by less than 0.0001. Prepare all the computations in 5 decimal
places.
Answer: −1.23375

5. The velocity flow , v [m/s], of a liquid along a channel satisfies

v 3 − 6v 2 − 348v + 3112 = 0.

Given that there is a root of this equation between v = 10 and v = 11, find this root correct to
three decimal places using the Newton-Raphson method.
Answer: 10.196 m/s

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