Fall 2011
Note: Homework is due by 5:00 p.m. on the due date.
Late homework
is not accepted.
Important: The numbers of homework problems listed are in the 9th edition of the book.
The problems in parenthesis are in the 8th edition. If there are no problems in parenthesis -
the numbers are the same in 8th and 9th editions.
| Number | Due Date | Section Numbers | Problem Numbers |
| 1. | Sep 7 |
Section 1.2
Section 1.3 |
5f, 13c, 15c 6c, 7b |
| 2. | Sep. 14 |
Section 2.1 Section 2.2 |
3c, 5b, 10b, 14 7, 11f |
| 3. | Sep 21 |
Section 2.3 Section 2.4 |
6c, 8 and 10 with 6c, 29 c,d 6a,9a |
| 4. | Sep 28 |
Section 3.1 |
2a, 4 with 2a, 5a,13d(19d) |
| 5. | Oct 5 |
Section 3.3 (3.2) Section 3.4 (3.3) |
3b, 5b, 9a,b,12, 16, 17 1c,3c |
| 6. | Oct. 12 |
|
no hmwk this week |
| 7. | Oct 19 |
Section 3.5 (3.4) Section 4.1 |
2,12,13 1b, 3b, 5a, 7a |
| 8. | Oct. 26 |
Section 4.3 Section 4.4 |
1d, 5 and 9 with 1d, 18 8 a,b, 9, 11a |
| 9. | Nov. 2 |
Section 4.7 Section 8.1 |
2 with 1h, 5 5 a,d,e |
| 10. | Nov. 9 |
Section 5.1 Section 5.2 Section 5.3 |
3a 5a, 7a, 10c 5a, 6b, 7 with 5a |
| 11. | Nov. 16 |
no hmwk this week |
|
| 12. | Dec. 2 |
Section 6.1 Section 6.2 Section 6.5 |
3a, 5d,10 9b,13 (with 9b), 17 (with 9b) 3d, 6a 9c |
| 13. | |
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Answers to Homework Problems
Section
2.1: Problem 6: The Bisection Method gives p10=1.0068, accurate
within 0.001.
Problem 12: n>= 12, p12=1.3787
Section 2.3: Problem
6c: p0=2 gives p4=2.370687; p0=4 gives p4=3.722113
Problem 8(with 6c): (i) p0=2, p1=3 gives p6=2.370687; p0=3, p1=4
gives p7=3.722113
Section 2.4: Problem
4a: alpha=1, lambda=1, linear convergence.
Section 3.2: Problem
8: The second forward-difference of P at 10 is 1140.
Section 3.3: Problem
2c: H3(-1/3) = 0.1745185 (approximation), f(-1/3) = 0.17451852 (exact).
Section 3.4: Problem
2: s(x)=x on [0,2].
Problem 8: a=4, b=4, c=-1, d=1/3.
Section 4.1: Problem
2b: x Actual Error Error
Bound
0.0
0.293
0.3
0.2
0.2694
0.2779
0.4
0.2602
0.2779
Section 4.3:
Problem
12: c0=1/3, c1=4/3, c2=1/3
Section 4.4:
Problem
4: a) 0.421582; b) 0.4227162; c) 0.4249845
Section 4.7:
Problem
2h: 0.6427011
Section 5.2:
Problem
4a: t Actual error
1.2 0.0066879
1.5 0.0095942
1.7 0.0102229
2.0 0.0105806
Problem 6c: h<0.029
Section 5.4:
Problem
2c: ti
wi
1.25 2.7767857
1.5 3.6042017
1.75 4.4736520
2.00 5.3790494
Section
6.1:
Problem 2a: x1=1, x2=-0.98, x3= 2.9;
Problem 6: a) alpha=1, b) alpha=-1, c) x1=-1/(1-alpha), x2=1, x3=
1/(1-alpha)
Section
6.3:
Problem 2b: 1,1,1
Section
6.4:
Problem 6: alpha=6
Section
6.6:
Problem 10: alpha>8/7