PATRICIAN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
UNIT 2 NUMERICAL METHODS & INTERPOLATION
QUESTION BANK
Two marks
1. Write the formula for Newton Raphson method. (Write the formula for finding a real root of the given
equation by Newton’s method.)
2. Name the method of the intervals are unequal.
3. Show that 𝐸 = 1 + ∆
4. Form a backward difference table for the following data:
x 3 4 5 6
y 6 24 60 120
5. Write Newton’s Backward interpolation formula
6. Write Newton’s Forward interpolation formula
7. Show that 1 − ∇= E −1
8. Define Lagrange’s Interpolation.
9. Define: “Extrapolation”
10. Define Interpolation
11. Distinguish between the Newton forward and backward interpolation.
12. Prove that 𝐸 = ∆ + 1
13. Evaluate ∆(𝑡𝑎𝑛−1 𝑥)
14. Prove that 𝐸∇= ∆= ∇𝐸
15. Evaluate: ∆(𝑥(𝑥 + 1)(𝑥 + 2)(𝑥 + 3))
16. Define Finite Differences
17. Distinguish between interpolation and extrapolation.
18. Define the operators ∆ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐸.
5 & 10 marks:
19. Evaluate the value of p when V 25 using Newton’s forward interpolation formula
from the following data :
V 10 20 30 40
p 1 2 4.4 7.9
20. Use Newton’s formula to find y when x 142 given that
x 140 150 160 171 180
y 1.685 4.854 6.302 8.076 10.225
21. A function f(x) is the following table. Find f(0.2) by a suitable formula
x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
f(x) 176 185 194 203 212 220 229
22. Using Newton’s formula, find sin(0.1604) from the following table:
x 0.160 0.161 0.162
sin x 0.1593182066 0.1603053541 0.1612923412
23. Find the value of y at x 21, using Newton’s interpolation formula for the data presented in the table.
x 20 23 26 29
y 0.3420 0.3907 0.4384 0.4848
24. Apply Lagrange’s formula to find f(x) when x 10.
X 5 6 9 11
f(x) 12 13 14 16
25. Use Lagrange’s formula to find y when x = 2, given that
x 0 3 5 6 8
y 276 460 414 343 110
26. Using Lagrange’s interpolation formula find y (3).
x 0 1 2 5
y 2 3 12 147
27. Find the value of y 9.5 using Lagrange’s interpolation formula for the data given in the table.
x 7 8 9 10
y 3 1 1 9
28. Given 𝑙𝑜𝑔10 300 = 2.4771; 𝑙𝑜𝑔10 304 = 2.4829; 𝑙𝑜𝑔10 305 = 2.4843; 𝑙𝑜𝑔10 307 = 2.4871 using
Lagrange’s formula find𝑙𝑜𝑔10 301.
29. Find the positive root of the equation 𝑥 3 − 2𝑥 − 5 = 0 by Newton Raphson method.
30. Use Newton-Raphson method to find the positive root of the equation 𝑥 3 − 2𝑥 2 − 3𝑥 − 4 = 0 Correct
to 2 decimal places.
31. Find the real root of the equation 3x cos x 1 by Newton-Raphson method.
32. Find 𝑢6 , given that
𝑢0 𝑢1 𝑢2 𝑢3 𝑢4 𝑢5
25 25 22 18 15 15
33. Given the following values for x and y
x 0 1 2 3 4 5
y 3 12 81 200 100 8
Find ∆5 𝑦0
34. Apply Newton’s backward formula to find a polynomial of degree 3 using the table given below:
x 3 4 5 6
y 6 24 60 120
35. Compute the value of sin(38)
x 0 10 20 30 40
sin x 0 0.17365 0.34202 0.5 0.64279
36. Using Newton’s formula, find the value of y when x=27, from the following table.
x 10 15 20 25 30
y 35.4 32.2 29.1 26 23.1
37. Find the value of y at x = 84
x 40 50 60 70 80 90
y 184 204 226 250 276 304
