Indian Institute of Technology(BHU), Varanasi
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Numerical Techniques(MA-201)
Tutorial-3
Note: For all the problems use 5-digit floating point arithmetic with rounding.
1. For each of the given functions given below,use the bisection method to approximate all real zeros.Use
the absolute tolerance of 10−6 as a stopping criterion.
(a)f (x) = ex + x2 − x − 4
(b)f (x) = x3 − x2 − 10x + 7
(c)f (x) = 1.05 − 1.04x + ln x
2. Let f (x) = −x3 − cosx, and p0 = −1. Use Newton’s method to find p2 . Could p0 be used?
3. Use the Newton’s method
2 to find the root of the equation
f (x) = 4x3 − 1 − exp x2 near p0 = 1.0
4. Find the zero of the function f (x) = x sin x+ cos x by using method of false position. Perform 4 iterations.
5. The function f (x) = e2x − ex − 2 has a zero on the interval [0,1]. Find this zero correct to three significant
digits using Newton’s method.
6. The fourth-degree polynomial f (x) = 230x4 + 18x3 + 9x2 − 221x − 9 has two real zeros,one in[-1,0] and
the other in [0,1].Attempt to approximate these zeros to within 10−6 using the
(a) Method of false position
(b)Secant method
(c)Newton’s method
Use the endpoints of each interval as a initial approximation in (a) and (b) and the midpoints as the initial
approximation in (c).
