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Taylor Series for Math Students

This document discusses using a Taylor series approximation to estimate the value of sin(π/2 + π/10). It first finds the derivatives of sin(x) and evaluates them at x=0.5 to determine the coefficients of the Taylor series. It then uses the first three terms of this series to calculate an approximate value for sin(π/2 + π/10). This is compared to the exact value and errors are computed. The relative error between the approximate and exact values is found to be 0.00014015%.

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Taylor Series for Math Students

This document discusses using a Taylor series approximation to estimate the value of sin(π/2 + π/10). It first finds the derivatives of sin(x) and evaluates them at x=0.5 to determine the coefficients of the Taylor series. It then uses the first three terms of this series to calculate an approximate value for sin(π/2 + π/10). This is compared to the exact value and errors are computed. The relative error between the approximate and exact values is found to be 0.00014015%.

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Task:2) [Taylor series approximation ]

function

Here is taylor series expanstion :

For and , we need to find the derivatives of with respect to x and evaluate them at
The derivatives are as follows:

Now, evaluate these derivatives at to find the coefficients for the Taylor series expansion:

Now, we can substitute these derivatives into the Taylor series formula. The first three terms are:

Now, let's find an approximate value for

y=(pi/2)+(pi/10)

y = 1.8850

% Taylor series approximation for sin(pi*x) centered at a=0.5


a = 0.5;
x = 3/5;

%approx value of (pi/2) + (pi/10) is 1.8850

1
approximation = 1 - ((pi^2)/2)*(x-a)^2 + ((pi^4)/24)*(x-a)^4

approximation = 0.9511

% Exact value for sin(pi/2 + pi/10)


exact_value = sin((pi/2) + (pi/10));

% Plotting the functions over the interval [0, 1.9]


interval = linspace(0, 1.9, 10000);
exact_values = sin(pi*interval);
approx_values = sin(pi/2) - ((pi^2)/2)*sin(pi/2)*(interval-a).^2 + ((pi^4)/
24)*sin(pi/2)*(interval-a).^4

approx_values = 1×10000
0.0200 0.0205 0.0211 0.0216 0.0222 0.0227 0.0233 0.0238

figure;
plot(interval, exact_values, 'b', interval, approx_values, 'r--');
legend('Exact', 'Approximation');
xlabel('x');
ylabel('y');
title('Comparison of Exact and Approximate Values');
xlim([0.00 1.90])
ylim([-1 7])

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% Computing errors and relative errors
error = abs(exact_value - approximation);
relative_error = abs((exact_value - approximation) / exact_value) * 100;

disp(['Exact Value: ', num2str(exact_value)]);

Exact Value: 0.95106

disp(['Approximate Value: ', num2str(approximation)]);

Approximate Value: 0.95106

disp(['Error: ', num2str(error)]);

Error: 1.3329e-06

disp(['Relative Error (%): ', num2str(relative_error)]);

Relative Error (%): 0.00014015

So, here we get Relative error = 0.00014015 %

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