BMTE-144

ASSIGNMENT BOOKLET

Bachelor’s Degree Programme

(BSCG / BAG)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS

Valid from 1st January, 2022 to 31st Dec, 2022

School of Sciences
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Maidan Garhi
New Delhi-110068
(2022)
Dear Student,

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evaluation, which would consist of one tutor-marked assignment for this course. The assignment is
in this booklet, and it consists of three parts, Part A, Part B, Part C. The maximum marks of all the parts
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 ASSIGNMENT

Course Code: BMTE-144

Assignment Code: BMTE-144/TMA/2022
Maximum Marks: 100

Part-A (Based on Blocks 1 and 2 of the course)

1. a) The equation x 3 − x − 1 = 0 has a positive root in the interval ]1, 2[ . Write a fixed point
iteration method and show that it converges. Starting with initial approximation x 0 = 1.5
find the root of the equation correct to three decimal places. (4)

b) Find an appropriate root of x 3 + 2 x 2 − 5 = 0 in [1, 2] with 10 −5 accuracy by

i) Newton Raphson Method
ii) Secant Method
What conclusions can you draw from here about the two methods? (6)

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2. a) Using Maclaurin’s expansion for sin x , find the approximate value of sin with the error
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bound 10 −5 . (3)

b) Find an approximate value of the positive real root of xe x = 1 using graphical method.
Use this value to find the positive real root of xe x = 1 correct to three decimal places by
fixed point iteration method. (4)

c) Using x 0 = 0 find an approximation to one of the zeros of x 3 − 4 x + 1 = 0 by using Birge-

Vieta Method. Perform two iterations. (3)

3. a) The iteration method

1 3N x 3n 
x n +1 =  6 x n + −  , n = 0, 1, 2
8 xn N 

where N is positive constant, converges to some quantity. Determine this quantity. Also
find the rate of convergence of this method. (4)

b) Solve the system of equations

2x 1 + 3x 2 + 4 x 3 + x 4 = 3
x1 + 2x 2 + x 4 = 2
2x 1 + 3x 2 + x 3 − x 4 = 1
x 1 − 2x 2 − x 3 + 4x 4 = 5
using Gauss elimination method with pivoting. (3)

3 1 2
c) Find the inverse of the matrix  − 2 3 − 5 using Gauss Jordan Method. (3)
 
 1 2 4 

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 Part-B (Based on Blocks 2 and 3 of the course)

4) a) Solve the system of equations

8x 1 − x 2 + 2x 3 = 4
− 3x 1 + 11x 2 − x 3 + 3x 4 = 23
− x 2 + 10x 3 − x 4 = −13
− 2x 1 + x 2 − x 3 + 8x 4 = 13

with x ( 0 ) = [0 0 0 0]T , by using the Gauss Jacboi and Gauss Seidel method. The exact
solution of the system is x = [1 2 − 1 1]T . Perform the required number of iterations so
that the same accuracy is obtained by both the methods. What conclusions can you draw
from the results obtained? (5)

b) Starting with x ( 0 ) = [1 1 1]T , find the dominant eigenvalue and corresponding eigenvector
 4 − 1 1
for the matrix A =  4 − 8 1 using the power method. (5)
 
− 2 1 5
1 2  x   4 
5. a) The solution of the system of equations     =   is attempted by the Gauss
 2 1  y  − 2
Jacobi and Gauss Seidel iteration schemes. Set up the two schemes in matrix form. Will the
iteration schemes converge? Justify your answer. (3)

b) Solve the following linear system Ax = b of equations with partial pivoting

x 1 − x 2 + 3x 3 = 3
2x 1 + x 2 + 4x 3 = 7
3x 1 + 5x 2 − 2 x 3 = 6 .
Store the multipliers and also write the pivoting vectors. (4)

∫e
−x2
c) Find the minimum number of intervals required to evaluate dx with an accuracy of
0

1
× 10 − 4 , by using the Trapezoidal rule. (3)
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6. a) From the following table, find the number of students who obtained less than 45 marks.

Marks No. of Students

30-40 31
40-50 42
50-60 51 (4)
60-70 35
70-80 31

b) Calculate the third-degree Taylor polynomial about x 0 = 0 for f ( x ) = (1 + x )1 / 2 . (3)

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 c) Use the polynomial in part (a) to approximate 1.1 and find a bound for the error
involved. (2)
0.1

∫ (1 + x )
1/ 2
d) Use the polynomial in part (a) to approximate dx . (1)
0

Part-C (Based on Blocks 3 and 4 of the course)

7. a) Using sin( 0.1) = 0.09983 and sin( 0.2) = 0.19867 , find an approximate value of
sin( 0.15) by using Lagrange interpolation. Obtain a bound on the truncation error. (3)

b) Consider the following data

x 1.0 1.3 1.6 1.9 2.2

f(x) 0.7651977 0.6200860 0.4554022 0.2818186 0.1103623

Use Stirling’s formula to approximate f (1.5) with x 0 = 1.6 . (3)

c) Solve the I.V.P., y′ = − y + t + 1, 0 ≤ t ≤ 1, y(0) = 1 using R-K method of 0(h 4 ) with

h = 0.1 and obtain the value of y(0.2) . Also find the error at t = 0.2 , if the exact
solution is y( t ) = t + e − t . (4)

8. a) The position f ( x ) of a particle moving in a line at various times x k is given in the

following table. Estimate the velocity and acceleration of the particle at x = 1.2 (3)
x 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2.0 2.2
f(x) 2.72 3.32 4.06 4.96 6.05 7.39 9.02

b) A solid of revolution is formed by rotating about the x-axis the area bounded between
x = 0, x = 1 and the curve given by the table

x 0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1.0

f(x) 1.0 0.9896 0.9587 0.9089 0.8415

Find the volume of the solid so formed using

i) Trapezodial rule ii) Simpson’s rule (3)
c) Take 10 figure logarithm to base 10 from x = 300 to x = 310 by unit increment.
Calculate the first derivative of log10 x when x = 310 . (4)

9. a) For the table of values of f ( x ) = xe x given by

x 1.8 1.9 2.0 2.1 2.2

f(x) 10.8894 12.7032 14.7781 17.1489 19.8550

Find f ′′(2.0) using the central difference formula of 0(h 2 ) for h = 0.1 and h = 0.2 .
Calculate T.E. and actual error. (3)
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b) Suppose f n denotes the value of f ( t ) at t = t n . If f ( t ) = t then find the value of
(f n +1 − 2f n + f n −1 )
. (2)
h2

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 c) Use Runge-Kutta method of order four to solve y′ = x + y . Start with x = 1, y = 0 and
carry to x = 1.5 with h = 0.1 . (3)
d) Find the solution of the difference equation y k +2 − 4 y k +1 + 4 y k = 0, k = 0, 1, K . Also
find the particular solution when y 0 = 1 and y1 = 6 . (2)
1
dx
10. a) Obtain an approximate value of ∫
0
1+ x2
using composite Simpson’s rule with

h = 0.25 and h = 0.125 . Find also the improved value using Romberg integration. (4)

b) Determine the spacing h in a table of equally spaced values for the function
f ( x ) = (2 + x ) 4 , 1 ≤ x ≤ 2 , so that the quadratic interpolation in this table satisfies
| error | ≤ 10−6 . (3)

c) Determine a unique polynomial f ( x ) of degree ≤ 3 such that

f ( x 0 ) = 1, f ′(x 0 ) = 2, f ( x1 ) = 2, f ′( x1 ) = 3 where x1 − x 0 = h . (3)