MAE 3013—Engineering Analysis and

Methods I
HW 04
Instructor: Raman P. Singh
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2020

1. Using fixed-point iteration find the smallest positive solution of sinx = e−x

2. Find the largest root of the legendre polynomial P5 (x) given by

P5 (x) = 1/8(63x5 − 70x3 + 15x) (sec. 5.3) (to be needed in gauss
integration in sec. 19.5) (a) by Newton’s method, (b) from a quadratic
equation.

3. Using Newton’s method (6s-accuracy) solve f = x3 − 5x + 3 = 0. Given

x0 = 2, 0, −2

4. Using secant method solve sinx = cotx, Given x0 = 1, x1 = 0.5

5. Linear and quadratic interpolation. Find e−0.25 and e−0.75 by

linear interpolation of e−x with x0 = 0, x1 = 0.5 and x0 = 0.5, x1 = 1,
respectively. Then find p2 (x) by quadratic interpolation of e−x with
x0 = 0, x1 = 0.5, x2 = 1 and from it e−0.25 and e−0.75 . Compare the
errors. Use 4S-values of e−x