POKHARA UNIVERSITY

Level: Bachelor Semester – Spring Year : 2009

Programme: BE Full Marks: 100
Course: Numerical Methods Pass Marks: 45
Time : 3hrs.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far
as practicable.
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Attempt all the questions.
1. a) Use False- position method to find the root of the following equation, 8
correct upto two decimal places:
x3  4x 2  x  6  0
b) Find the root of the equation f ( x )  x sin x  cos x using Newton- 7
Raphson method, correct up to three decimal places.
2. a) The velocity distribution of the fluid near a flat surface is given by 8
the table below:
X (cm) 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.7 0.9
V (cm/s) 0.72 1.81 2.73 3.47 3.98
Where x is the distance from the surface. Using a suitable interpolation
method, obtain the velocity at x =2.5
b) Use regression method to fit the geometrical curve y  ab x to the 7
data given below and obtain the value of y at x =5.5
X 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Y 10 21 35 59 92 200 400 610
3. a) Evaluate the following integral using Simpson's 3/8 Rule: 8
2

 (x  1) dx, using n = 3.
3

1
1
e
x
b) Evaluate the integral dx using two-point Gauss Legendre
1 7
method.
4. a) Solve the following system of equation by Guass-Seidel method 8
(upto 3 iterations only)

1
 28 x  4 y  z  32
x  3 y  10 z  24
2 x  17 y  4 z  35
b) Solve the following system of equation by Jacobi-Iteration method 7
3 x  4 y  15 z  54.8
x  12 y  3 z  39.66
10 x  y  2 x  7.74
5. a) Use the Rk4 method to estimate y(0.5) of the following equations 7
with h = 0.25
dy
 x  y , y ( 0)  1
dx
b) Solve the second order differential equation 8
y ' ' x y '2 xy  0 for y(0.1) and y'(0.1), given that y(0) = 1, y'(0)=0
2

using Heun's method Take step size h = 0.1

6. a) Solve the elliptic equation Uxx+Uyy = 0 for the following square 8
mesh with boundary values as shown in the figure. Iterate until the
maximum difference between two successive values at any point is
less than 0.001.

b) Determine the largest eigen value and corresponding eigen vector of

the following matrix. 7
3 1 1 
 2 4 3
 
0
 1 1 


7. Write short notes on: (Any Two) 2×5

a) Gaussian Qudrature method
b) Lagrange's Interpolation method
c) Errors in Numerical calculation