List of Tables

  1. Floating $ \rightarrow $ Normalized.
  2. The bisection method for $ f(x)=3x + sin(x) - e^x$, starting from $ x_1=0,x_2=1$, using a tolerance value of 1E-4.
  3. The Secant method for $ f(x)=3x + sin(x) - e^x$, starting from $ x_0=1,x_1=0$, using a tolerance value of 1E-6.
  4. Comparison of methods, $ f(x)=3x + sin(x) - e^x$, starting from $ x_0=0,x_1=1$.
  5. The Error Sequences
  6. The order of convergence for the iteration algorithm with the different forms of $ x = g(x)$ .
  7. Right: Errors when finding a double root. Left: Successive errors with Newton's method, for $ f(x)=(x+1)^3=0$.
  8. An example for solving a system by iteration
  9. Another example for solving a system by iteration
  10. The Error Sequences
  11. The Error Sequences
  12. A comparison of singular and nonsingular matrices
  13. Successive estimates of solution (Jacobi method)
  14. Successive estimates of solution (Gauss-Seidel method)
  15. Fitting a polynomial to data.
  16. Divided-difference table in symbolic form.
  17. Divided-difference table in numerical values.
  18. Data to illustrate curve fitting.
  19. Comparison of economized series with Maclaurin series.
  20. Comparison of Chebyshev series for $ e^x$ with Maclaurin series.
  21. Forward-difference approximations for $ f(x)=e^x sin(x)$.
  22. Central-difference approximations for $ f(x)=e^x sin(x)$.
  23. Example for the trapezoidal rule.


2004-12-28