QUESTION 1 [30 MARKS]
Discuss exhaustively the Romberg Method Extrapolation process to show that the nth order
extrapolation employed by the method is given by:
I Improved
n
= 4 I More—accura4taen_4~~ I Less accurate
QUESTION 2 [30 MARKS}
(a) Define the Picard Method for solving the following Initial Value Problem (IVP)
Tdy aos (t, y(t), v(to) = y,
and hence derive the Picard Iteration algorithm
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(b) Using the Picard method, find the solution, correct to 3 decimal places, of the following 1*t order
IVP atx =0.1
dSdwx axty?, y(0)=1
with x(0) =x) = 0
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QUESTION 3 [30 MARKS]
(a) Discuss the contrast between a quadrature rule and the adaptive rule.
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(b) Consider the integral
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b
3
| Feoax = | e** sin(3x)dx
a
1
Using the Adaptive Simpson’s Method and an error € = 0.2, obtain the approximate value of the
above integral (for computational ease, using where appropriate the following as done in class):
To1 S|.a b) — S.(a, a+b )— S{ a+b .b)
where
[ b tear = 60a- .h°F)O, Fe(a.b)
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