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This document provides instructions for a take-home exam on numerical methods. It consists of 5 multi-part problems related to interpolation and curve fitting techniques, including Newton's method, cubic splines, Hermite interpolation, and Bezier curves. Students are allowed to consult notes but not discuss solutions with others. They must sign a statement pledging academic honesty before submitting their work.

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Exam 1

This document provides instructions for a take-home exam on numerical methods. It consists of 5 multi-part problems related to interpolation and curve fitting techniques, including Newton's method, cubic splines, Hermite interpolation, and Bezier curves. Students are allowed to consult notes but not discuss solutions with others. They must sign a statement pledging academic honesty before submitting their work.

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E XAMINATION # 1 - N UMERICAL M ETHODS (TAKE -H OME )

IME3007, Fall 2020 P. Arauz

Due: by 1:00 pm on Friday, October 16, 2020

This is a take-home exam. You are free to consult books and notes, but you cannot discuss with others
regarding the solutions nor the methodology leading to the solution. You are welcome to contact me if you
have questions regarding the problems. This exam should strictly be an individual effort.

Due in D2L by the specified time above. Turn in your work and answers with the exam sheets signed
below. Your take-home exam will not be graded nor given credit unless this signed page is submitted.

Statement on Academic Honesty: Academic integrity requires that all work you submit for any course rep-
resent your own efforts for that course. Only by doing your own work with critical thinking and receiving
a response to it will you actually grow intellectually. One of the most common forms of academic dishon-
esty is plagiarism. You are permitted to consult books and lecture notes for this take-home exam, but any
discussion with your colleagues or peers that leads to the solution of the following problems is not allowed.
The “Policies and Procedures Governing Academic Dishonesty” published by the University is applicable
to this course.

With my signature below, I hereby pledge to observe the policy of the University regarding academic hon-
esty, and certify that the work submitted for this take-home examination is solely my own without any help
from others.

Signature:

1 20 %
2 20 %
For Grading Use Only: 3 20 %
4 20 %
5 20 %

Important notes:

Read the problem statements very carefully before you answer them. Answer all questions. Check algebra
to ensure that there is no algebraic mistake before you turn the exam in.

Don not panic and good luck!.

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Figure 1: A radial view of a thermos.

1. (20% total) The innermost compartment of the thermos shown in Figure 1 is separated from the middle
container by a vacuum. A final shell around the thermos is separated from the middle layer by a thin
layer of air. The outside of the final shell comes in contact with room air. Heat transfer from the
inner compartment to the next layer q1 is by radiation only. Heat transfer between the middle layer
and outside shell q2 is by convection in a small space. Heat transfer from the outside shell to the air
q3 is by natural convection. The heat flux from each region of the thermos must be equal, that is,
q1 = q2 = q3 . Find the temperatures T1 and T2 at steady state. T0 is 480◦ C and T3 = 20◦ C using

q1 = 10−9 [(T0 + 273)4 − (T1 + 273)4 ]


q2 = 4(T1 − T2 )
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q3 = 1.3(T2 − T3 ) 3

(a) The Bisection method.


(b) The Fixed-Point method.
(c) The Newton’s method.
(d) The Secant method.
(e) Steffensen’s method.

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2. (20% total) The following data define the sea-level concentration of dissolved oxygen for fresh water
as a function of temperature:

T ◦C 0 8 16 24 32 40
o mg/L 14.621 11.843 9.870 8.418 7.305 6.413

Estimate o(27) using:

(a) Lagrange polynomial method.


(b) Neville’s method.
(c) Newton’s divided difference method.
(d) Cubic splines approach.

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3. (20% total) Use Hermite approach on the following information

xk 0 1.5 3
yk 2 15.641 740
yk 0 0 48.563 1464
yk 00 2 153.88 2432
yk 000 0 405 3240

(a) To find the polynomial which interpolates the data.


(b) Plot the obtained polynomial and the data points using MATLAB.

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4. (20% total) Given the following data

x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
f (x) 4.5 7.0 6.1 5.6 5.8 5.2 4.1

(a) Construct natural cubic splines and find the polynomial that interpolates the data.
(b) Plot and compare the obtained natural cubic splines, the polynomial, and the provided data using
MATLAB.

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5. (20% total) Given four control points A(0, 0), B(4, 2), C(0, − 10), and D(−10, 10)

(a) Develop the cubic Bezier curve equation and plot the curve using MATLAB.
(b) Suppose the two control points of another curve segment are E(8, − 2) and F (0, 20). Develop
the cubic Bezier curve equation that is connected to the curve in (a) with first order continuity
(C 1 ). Plot both curves together using MATLAB and verify the result.

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