Department of Mathematical Sciences

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi

Odd semester (2016-17)
Numerical techniques

Tutorial sheet- 4
1. (a) Prove that

2+ Δ 1
μ=
2 √1+ Δ √
= 1+ δ 2 .
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(b) Prove that

1 5
∇ y n+1 =h (1+ ∇ + ∇ 2 +⋯) y n .
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2 12

2. Find the missing term in the table by using forward difference table:

x: 2 3 4 5 6
y: 45 . 0 49. 2 54 . 1 .. . 67 . 4
y
3. If n is a polynomial for which fifth difference is constant and
y 1 + y 7 =−784 , y 2 + y 6 =686 , y 3 + y 5 =1088 . Find y 4 .

4. Prove that

x Δ 2 x Ee x
e =( )e 2 x .
E Δ e

5. Solve the following non-homogeneous difference equations:

(a)  yn  3yn  4 yn  n
2 2

(b) yn 2  4 yn1  3 yn  4  5 .

n n

(c) yn 2  4 yn 1  8 yn  sin 2n.

(d) yn 2  2 cos kyn1  yn  cos kn , where k is a real constant.

6. Find an interpolating polynomial for f(x) and hence find f(4.5) with the
following data:

x 0 1 2 4 5 6
f(x) 1 14 15 5 6 19
7. The following table of values represents the data for a polynomial of
degree ≤ 3. Locate any error in the table of values:

x 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4

f(x) 2.00 2.11 2.28 2.39 2.56

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