DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES

Assam University, Silchar

Syllabus & Problem Set V (2019) SOTCF 06

Advanced Engineering Mathematics

UNIT-V: Numerical Analysis

1. (i) Construct a forward difference table for f (x) = x3 + 2x + 1 for x = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

(ii) By constructing a forward difference table and taking the 2nd differences as constants find the next
term in the series 8, 12, 19, 29, 42.
(iii) Find ∆10 (1 − ax)(1 − bx2 )(1 − cx3 )(1 − dx4 ) when h = 1.
(iv) Show that ∆n sin(ax + b) = (2 sin a2 )n sin(ax + b + n( a+π
2 )).

2. ∗ (i) Given u0 = 3, u1 = 12, u2 = 81, u3 = 200, u4 = 100, u5 = 8. Find ∆5 u0 .

(ii) Find the missing value:
x: 0 1 2 3 4
y: 1 3 9 - 81
(iii) Find the missing value:
x: 0 1 2 3 4 5
y: 0 - 8 15 - 35
3. Find the interpolating polynomial for the following data: f (−1) = 0, f (0) = 1, f (1) = 2. How many
polynomials of degree 3 satisfy above data?
4. Find the value of sin 320 :
x: 30 35 40 45 50
sin x: 0.50 0.5736 0.6428 0.7071 0.7660
5. In an exam the number of students who obtained marks between certain limits were as follows:
Marks: 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
No. of students: 31 42 51 35 31
Find the number of students whose score lie between 45 and 50.
6. ∗ From the following data find the value of f (84):
x: 40 50 60 70 80 90
f (x): 180 204 226 250 276 304
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7. (i) Find an approximation to 3 correct up to 2 decimal places using bisection method.
(ii) Compute one real root of ex − 3x = 0 up to 2 decimal places by bisection method.
(iii) A root of the equation x3 + x − 4 = 0 lies in the interval (1, 4). Find the minimum number of
iterations necessary to obtain an approximation to this root with an error less than 10−3 by bisection
method.
(iv) The function f (x) = (x − 1)(x − 2)(x − 3)(x − 4)(x − 5) has five roots in the interval [0, 7]. If the
bisection method is applied in this interval, which of the roots is located?
8. (i) Find a root of the equation sin x = 10(x − 1) numerically by fixed point theorem.
(ii) Find a root of the equation x3 + x2 − 1 = 0 which lies in the interval (0, 1).
(iii) Find a root of x3 − sin x − 1 = 0 correct up to two decimal places by fixed point iteration method.
9. (i) Find a real root of ex = 4x by Newton-Raphson method.
(ii) Approximate the real zeros of f (x) = x3 − x − 1 by Newton-Raphson method starting with initial
choices (a) x0 = 2 (b) x0 = 0 (c) x0 = −2. Explain what happens.
(iii) The equation lnx = x − 2 has 2 solutions. Approximate them using Newton-Raphson method.
What happens if x0 = 21 is the initial point?
(iv) Find a root of x − 2 sin x − 3 = 0 correct up to 3 decimal places by Newton-Raphson method.