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Week 5 Worksheet Solution
Week 5 Worksheet Solution
Week 5 Worksheet Solution
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Solutions to Week 5 Problems on Taylor Polynomials
Here are the complete solutions to some problems on Taylor polynomials in the worksheet.
Solution: First find all its derivatives: f ' ( x )=2 e 2 x , f ' ' ( x ) =4 e2 x , f ' ' ' ( x )=8 e 2 x , … , f (n ) ( x )=2n e 2 x
Then we have:
f ( 1 ) =e2 , f ' ( 1 )=2 e 2 , f ' ' (1 ) =4 e2 , f ' ' ' ( 1 )=8 e 2 ,… , f (n ) ( 1 )=2n e 2
So the Taylor polynomial T n is given by:
f ' ( 1) f ' ' (1) 2 f (n ) ( 1 ) n
T n ( x )=f ( 1 )+ ( x−1 ) + ( x−1 ) + …+ ( x−1 )
1! 2! n!
2 n 2
2 2 4e ( 2 2e ( n
¿ e + 2 e ( x −1 )+ x−1 ) + …+ x−1 )
2 n!
7. Find an estimate for the error when the third Maclaurin polynomial T 3 ( x ) of f ( x )=e x is used to
approximate the value of e .
Solution:
Here T 3 ( x ) centered at a=0 is used to approximate f ( x )=e x at x=1.
8. Let T n be the nth Maclaurin polynomial for f ( x )=cos x. Find a value of n such that
|cos ( 0.1 )−T n ( 0.1 )|<10−6
Solution:
Here T n ( x ) centered at a=0 is used to approximate f ( x )=cos x at x=0.1.