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The document provides instructions for using Newton's method, the secant method, and the method of false position to approximate solutions of various equations within given intervals. It contains 12 problems involving finding roots of functions like x^2 - 6, -x^3 - cos(x), and e^x - 3x^2 to varying degrees of accuracy using the different numerical methods.

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Tutorial 2

The document provides instructions for using Newton's method, the secant method, and the method of false position to approximate solutions of various equations within given intervals. It contains 12 problems involving finding roots of functions like x^2 - 6, -x^3 - cos(x), and e^x - 3x^2 to varying degrees of accuracy using the different numerical methods.

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1. Let f (x) = x 2 − 6 and p0 = 1. Use Newton’s method to find p2 .

2. Let f (x) = −x 3 − cos x and p0 = −1. Use Newton’s method to find p2 . Could p0 = 0 be used?
3. Let f (x) = x 2 − 6. With p0 = 3 and p1 = 2, find p3 .
a. Use the Secant method.
b. Use the method of False Position.
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c. Which of a. or b. is closer to 6?
4. Let f (x) = −x 3 − cos x. With p0 = −1 and p1 = 0, find p3 .
a. Use the Secant method. b. Use the method of False Position.
5. Use Newton’s method to find solutions accurate to within 10−4 for the following problems.
a. x 3 − 2x 2 − 5 = 0, [1, 4] b. x 3 + 3x 2 − 1 = 0, [−3, −2]
c. x − cos x = 0, [0, π/2] d. x − 0.8 − 0.2 sin x = 0, [0, π/2]
6. Use Newton’s method to find solutions accurate to within 10−5 for the following problems.
a. ex + 2−x + 2 cos x − 6 = 0 for 1 ≤ x ≤ 2
b. ln(x − 1) + cos(x − 1) = 0 for 1.3 ≤ x ≤ 2
c. 2x cos 2x − (x − 2)2 = 0 for 2 ≤ x ≤ 3 and 3 ≤ x ≤ 4
d. (x − 2)2 − ln x = 0 for 1 ≤ x ≤ 2 and e ≤ x ≤ 4
e. ex − 3x 2 = 0 for 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 and 3 ≤ x ≤ 5
f. sin x − e−x = 0 for 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 3 ≤ x ≤ 4 and 6 ≤ x ≤ 7
7. Repeat Exercise 5 using the Secant method.
8. Repeat Exercise 6 using the Secant method.
9. Repeat Exercise 5 using the method of False Position.
10. Repeat Exercise 6 using the method of False Position.
11. Use all three methods in this Section to find solutions to within 10−5 for the following problems.
a. 3xex = 0 for 1 ≤ x ≤ 2
b. 2x + 3 cos x − ex = 0 for 0 ≤ x ≤ 1

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