Cairo University Faculty of Engineering

Credit hours program Fall 2019

MTHN201 Numerical Analysis

Assignment 2
Curve Fitting and linear regression

1- V is the electric potential and I is the electric current the equation has the form
I  aV b , Find a and b using the following data:
V 2 4 8 16 25 32 50
I 0.0245 0.037 0.007 0.0855 0.1125 0.1295 0.1715

a
2- Fit the curve y  2
by the following data, then find the correlation Coefficient
be bx
x 1 1.1 1.3 1.35 1.4
y 0.7357 0.5964 0.3691 0.3232 0.2817

3- Fit the curve y  a  bx 2 to the following data, then find St

x 7.87 11.5 16.4 22.6 32.8

y 0.2 0.4 0.8 1.6 3.2

4- The relation between the parametric pressure P and the height h is P  ae bh , Fit
this relation to the following data, then evaluate S r
h 0 866 2753 4763 6942 10593
P 30 23 27 26 23 20

5- V is the velocity and P is the power in horsepower, the equation is P  a  bV 3 , Fit

it to the following data:
V 5 7 9 11 12
P 290 560 1144 1810 2300

6- For Newton’s law for cooling  is the increment of temperature and t is the time,

the equation is   c sin tekt . Find c and k using the following data:
  1.09 3.45 5.85 9.3 11.8 15.1 17.75 19.95
t 0.2 0.8 0.97 1.37 1.54 2.01 2.85 3.11

7- Fit the curve y  a  bx  cx 2 to the following data

x 1 2 4 6 8 10 12 15
y 8.9 9.9 18.1 33.9 58.2 89.8 130.3 204.7

8- Fit to the following data the curves:

1 ax 1 x
a) y  b) y  , c) y  d) y 
a  bx 1  bx a  bx 2 b  cx
x 1 2 4 6 8 10
y 0.22 0.1 0.06 0.04 0.03 0.024
Evaluate the correlation coefficient in each case.
b
a 
( xa )2

9- Fit the curve a) y  e b) y  ce c) y  ae bx to the following data:

2
x b

x 1 2 4 5 8
y 9.0464 6.7042 2.019 0.821 0.0164

10- Fit the curve y  Ax  E sin( x  B) by the following data:

x 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
y 1.8466 2.0821 2.2107 2.7658
Evaluate the correlation coefficient .

11- Fit the curve y  ln( a  bx  cx ) to the following points: (0, 1.1), (1, 1.8), (2, 2.3),
2

(3,2.9), (4, 3.2), (5,3.6) and (6,3.9). Find the root mean squares of errors. Find y` at
x  1and find x when y  4.3.

𝒃 𝟐
12- Fit the following data to the curve 𝒚 = (𝒂𝒙𝟐 + 𝒙) then find the correlation
coefficient.

x 0.2 0.5 0.8 1

y 102 22 20 25
  ax 2   
13- Fit the curve y  sinh 1   by the following data:
 bx 
x 0.8 1 1.2 1.3 1.5
y 1.129 1.034 0.966 0.939 0.895
Then find the correlation coefficient.
𝜷 𝟑
( 𝟐)
14- Fit the following data to the curve 𝒚 = (𝜶𝒆 ) then
𝒙 find the correlation
coefficient.

x 5 5.8 6.1 7.4

y 81 77 75 71

𝒙𝟐 −𝟏
15- Fit the following data to the curve 𝒚= then find the correlation
𝒂𝒙𝟐 +𝒃𝒙−𝒂
coefficient.

x 0 2 3 5
y 2 4 8 10

16- Linearize then fit the curve 𝒚 = 𝒂𝒙 𝒙𝒃 to the following table, then find 𝑺𝒕 and 𝑺𝒓 .

x 0.5 0.6 0.8 1.1 1.3

y 0.28 0.57 1.86 7.82 17.8

𝒂𝒆𝒙
17- Linearize then fit the curve 𝒚 = 𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐡−𝟏 ( ) to the table below. Find 𝑺𝒕 and
𝒃𝒆𝒙 +𝟏
𝑺𝒓 .

x 0.5 1.1 1.8 2.4

y 0.625 0.693 0.744 0.77

𝒂𝒙𝟐 +𝒃
18- Linearize then fit the curve 𝒚 = 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐡−𝟏 ( ) to the following table, work with 3
𝒙

decimals. Find the correlation coefficient.

x 2.2 4 6.1 7.8

y 3.484 4.043 4.298 4.7