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Answer 56855

This document provides the solution to an interpolation problem. [1] It gives values for the function f(x)=cos(x) at points x0=0, x1=0.6, and x2=0.9. [2] It constructs linear and quadratic Lagrange interpolation polynomials to approximate f(0.45) and finds the absolute error for each. [3] The linear interpolation has an error of 0.0314 while the quadratic interpolation has a lower error of 0.0024.

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Answer 56855

This document provides the solution to an interpolation problem. [1] It gives values for the function f(x)=cos(x) at points x0=0, x1=0.6, and x2=0.9. [2] It constructs linear and quadratic Lagrange interpolation polynomials to approximate f(0.45) and finds the absolute error for each. [3] The linear interpolation has an error of 0.0314 while the quadratic interpolation has a lower error of 0.0024.

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Answer on Question #56855 – Math – Algorithms | Quantitative Methods

For the given functions f (x), let x0 = 0, x1 = 0.6, and x2 = 0.9. Construct interpolation polynomials of degree
at most one and at most two to approximate f (0.45), and find the absolute error.

a. f (x) = cos x

Solution

𝑦0 = 𝑓(𝑥0 ) = cos 0 = 1;

𝑦1 = 𝑓(𝑥1 ) = cos 0.6 = 0.8253;

𝑦2 = 𝑓(𝑥2 ) = cos 0.9 = 0.6216;

a) The Lagrange interpolation polynomial of degree at most 1 is constructed as follows:


𝑥1 − 𝑥 𝑥 − 𝑥0
𝑦0 + 𝑦 , 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑥 ∈ [𝑥0, 𝑥1],
𝑥 −𝑥 𝑥1 − 𝑥0 1
𝐿1 (𝑥) = { 𝑥1 − 𝑥0 𝑥 − 𝑥1
2
𝑦1 + 𝑦 , 𝑓𝑜𝑟 x ∈ [x1, x2],
𝑥2 − 𝑥1 𝑥2 − 𝑥1 2

1 − 0.2912𝑥, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑥 ∈ [0, 0.6],


𝐿1 (𝑥) = {
1.2327 − 0.679𝑥, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑥 ∈ [0.6, 0.9],

𝑓(0.45) ≈ 0.8690 is approximated through the linear Lagrange polynomial: 𝑓(0.45) = cos 0.45 = 0.9004.

The absolute error is

|0.9004 − 0.8690| = 0.0314.

b) The Lagrange interpolation polynomial of degree at most 2 is constructed as follows:

𝐿2 (𝑥) = 𝑙0 (𝑥)𝑦0 + 𝑙1 (𝑥)𝑦1 + 𝑙2 (𝑥)𝑦2 ,

where

𝑥 − 𝑥1 𝑥 − 𝑥2
𝑙0 (𝑥) = ( )( )
𝑥0 − 𝑥1 𝑥0 − 𝑥2
𝑥 − 𝑥0 𝑥 − 𝑥2
𝑙1 (𝑥) = ( )( )
𝑥1 − 𝑥0 𝑥1 − 𝑥2
𝑥 − 𝑥0 𝑥 − 𝑥1
𝑙2 (𝑥) = ( )( )
𝑥2 − 𝑥0 𝑥2 − 𝑥1

𝑓(0.45) ≈ 0.8980 is approximated through the quadratic Lagrange polynomial.

The absolute error is

|0.9004 − 0.8980 | = 0.0024.

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