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HW03 Spring 2024

This document contains 11 multi-part math homework problems involving numerical integration techniques like the trapezoidal rule, Simpson's rule, and Gaussian quadrature, as well as interpolation, differentiation, and double integration. The problems cover topics like constructing cubic splines, approximating integrals, and using Romberg integration.

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HW03 Spring 2024

This document contains 11 multi-part math homework problems involving numerical integration techniques like the trapezoidal rule, Simpson's rule, and Gaussian quadrature, as well as interpolation, differentiation, and double integration. The problems cover topics like constructing cubic splines, approximating integrals, and using Romberg integration.

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MATH 351 Numerical Methods with Applications

Spring 2024
Homework 3.
1. Construct the natural cubic spline for the following data.

x f (x) x f (x)
(a) 8.3 17.56492 (b) 0.8 0.22363362
8.6 18.50515 1.0 0.65809197
x f (x)
x f (x)
0.1 -0.62049958
-0.5 -0.0247500
(c) (d) 0.2 -0.28398668
-0.25 0.3349375
0.3 0.00660095
0 1.1010000
0.4 0.24842440

2. A natural cubic spline S on [0, 2] is defined by


(
S0 (x) = 1 + 2x − x3 , if 0 ≤ x ≤ 1,
S(x) =
S1 (x) = 2 + b(x − 1) + c(x − 1)2 + d(x − 1)3 , if 1 ≤ x ≤ 2.

Find b, c, and d.

3. Given the partition x0 = 0, x1 = 0.05, and x2 = 0.1 of [0, 0.1], find the piecewise linear interpolating
Z 0.1 Z 0.1
2x 2x
function F for f (x) = e . Approximate e dx with F (x)dx and compare the results to
0 0
the actual value.

4. Use the forward-difference formulas and the backward-difference formulas to determine each missing
entry in the following tables.
x f (x) f ′ (x) x f (x) f ′ (x)
0.5 0.4794 0.0 0.00000
(a) (b)
0.6 0.5646 0.2 0.74140
0.7 0.6442 0.4 1.3718
5. The data in Exercise 4 were taken from the following functions. Compute the actual errors in Exercise
4, and find error bounds using the error formulas.

(a) f (x) = sin x


(b) f (x) = ex − 2x2 + 3x − 1.

6. The forward-difference formula can be expressed as

1 h h2
f ′ (x0 ) = (f (x0 + h) − f (x0 )) − f ′′ (x0 ) − f ′′′ (x0 ) + O(h3 )
h 2 6
Use extrapolation to derive an O(h3 ) formula for f ′ (x0 ).

7. Approximate the following integrals using the Trapezoidal rule and Simpson’s rule. Find bounds for
each method for the error using the error formula and compare this to the actual error.
Z 1
(a) x4 dx
0.5
Z0.5
2
(b) dx
0 x−4
Z 1.5
(c) x2 ln xdx
1

1
Z 1
(d) x2 e−x dx
0
Z 2
8. Approximate x2 ln(x2 + 1)dx using h = 0.25. Use
0

(a) Composite Trapezoidal rule.


(b) Composite Simpson’s rule.
(c) Composite Midpoint rule.
Z b
9. Romberg integration for approximating f (x)dx gives R11 = 8, R22 = 16/3, and R33 = 208/45.
a
Find R31 .

10. Approximate the integrals from exercise 7 (a) and 7 (c) using Gaussian quadrature with n = 2 and
compare your results to the exact values of the integrals.

11. Use Simpson’s Double Integral(Algorithm 4.4) with n = m = 4 to approximate the following double
integrals and compare the results to the exact answers.
Z 2.5 Z 1.4
(a) xy 2 dydx
2.1 1.2
Z0.5 Z 0.5
(b) ey−x dydx
0 0
(c)
Z 2.2 Z 2x
(d) (x2 + y 3 )dydx
2 x

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