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BVM ENGINEERING COLLEGE [AN AUTONOMOUS INSTITUTION]

2BS04: PROBABILITY AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS


CREDITS - 4 (LTP:3,1,0)
nd
2 Year, B. Tech. (Electrical)

Course Objective:
To introduce probability and numerical techniques used in engineering.

Teaching and Assessment Scheme:


Teaching Scheme
Credits Assessment Scheme Total
(Hours per Week)
Marks
Theory Marks Practical Marks
L T P C
ESE CE ESE CE
150
3 1 0 4 60 40 20 30

Course Contents:
Unit Topics Teaching
No. Hours
1 Basic Probability: 12
 Orientation of Probability spaces, conditional probability, independence;
Discrete random variables, Independent random variables, the
multinomial distribution, Poisson approximation to the binomial
distribution, infinite sequences of Bernoulli trials, sums of independent
random variables;
 Expectation of Discrete Random Variables, Moments, Variance of a
sum, Correlation coefficient, Chebyshev's Inequality.
2 Continuous Probability Distributions: 4
Continuous random variables and their properties, distribution functions and
densities, normal, exponential and gamma densities.
3 Bivariate Distributions: 4
Bivariate distributions and their properties, distribution of sums and quotients,
conditional densities, Bayes' rule.
4 Numerical Methods – 1 12
Solution of polynomial and transcendental equations – Bisection method,
Newton-Raphson method and Regula-Falsi method. Finite differences, Relation
between operators, Interpolation using Newton’s forward and backward
difference formulae. Interpolation with unequal intervals: Newton’s divided
difference and Lagrange’s formulae. Numerical Differentiation, Numerical
integration: Trapezoidal rule and Simpson’s 1/3rd and 3/8 rules.
5 Numerical Methods – 2 10
Ordinary differential equations: Taylor’s series, Euler and modified Euler’s
methods. Runge-Kutta method of fourth order for solving first and second order
equations. Milne’s and Adam’s predicator-corrector methods.
Total 42

List of References:
1. B.S. Grewal, “Higher Engineering Mathematics”, Khanna Publishers, 35th Edition, 2000.
2. S. C. Gupta, V. K. Kapur, “Fundamental of Statistics”, Sultan Chand & Sons, India,
BVM ENGINEERING COLLEGE [AN AUTONOMOUS INSTITUTION]

3. S. Ross, “A first course in Probability”, Pearson Education India, 2002.


4. Richard A. Johnson, Miller and Freund's - Probability and Statistics for Engineers, Prentice
Hall of India, 2011.
5. S. S. Sastry, “Introductory Methods of Numerical Analysis”, 4th edition, Prentice Hall India
Pvt., Limited, 2005.
6. Chapra S. and Canale R., “Numerical Methods for Engineers”, 6th edition, Tata McGraw-Hill.
7. Jain M. K., Iyengar SRK and Jain R. K., “Numerical Methods for Scientific & Engineering
Computation”, 6th Edition, New Age International Publishers.

Course outcome:
At the end of this course students will be able to
1. Understand the concepts and tools of Probability theory.
2. Analyze and solve various engineering problems through the probability theory.
3. Adapt tools of probability theory and apply them in engineering problems.
4. Examine, analyze, and compare Probability distributions.
5. Determine numerical solution of algebraic and transcendental equations and discuss different
difference operators.
6. Use interpolation techniques for data analysis and numerically solve initial value problems.

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