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Course: MCSC 202 (ASSIGNMENT - II)
Problem 1 Use Bisection method, correct to three decimal places, for each of the following equations.
Use the specified interval.

1. x3 + x2 + x + 7 = 0, [−2.5, −2] 3. x − 2−x = 0, [0, 1]

2. x3 − 4x − 9 = 0, [2, 3] 4. 2x cos(2x) − (x + 1)2 = 0, [−3, −2]

Problem 2 Use method of False Position to obtain a root, correct to three decimal places, for each of
the following equations. Use the specified interval.

1. x3 + x2 + x + 7 = 0, [−2.5, −2] 3. x − 2−x = 0, [0, 1]

2. x3 − 4x − 9 = 0, [2, 3] 4. 2x cos(2x) − (x + 1)2 = 0, [−3, −2]

Problem 3 Use secant method to obtain a root, correct to three decimal places, for each of the following
equations. Use the specified interval.

1. x3 + x2 + x + 7 = 0, [−2.5, −2] 3. x − 2−x = 0, [0, 1]

2. x3 − 4x − 9 = 0, [2, 3] 4. 2x cos(2x) − (x + 1)2 = 0, [−3, −2]

Problem 4 Use the fixed point iteration method to obtain a real root, correct to four significant figures,
for each of the following equations. Use the specified initial guess x0 .

1. cos x = 3x − 1, x0 = 2 3. x4 − 3x2 − 3 = 0, x0 = 1
2. ex = cot x, x0 = 0.8 4. x3 − x − 1 = 0, x0 = 1

Problem 5 Use the Newton Raphson method to obtain a real root, correct to four significant figures, for
each of the following equations. Use the specified initial guess x0 .

1. cos x = 3x − 1, x0 = 2 3. x4 − 3x2 − 3 = 0, x0 = 1
2. ex = cot x, x0 = 0.8 4. x3 − x − 1 = 0, x0 = 1

Problem 6 Solve the system of non-linear equations x2 = 3xy − 7; y = 2(x + 1) by Newton method
correct to 10−4 with initial approximation as (i) x0 = 2, y0 = 2 and (ii) x0 = −2, y0 = −2.
Problem 7 Solve the system of non-linear equations x = −0.1x3 + 0.1y + 0.5; y = 0.1x + 0.1y 3 + 0.1
correct to 10−4 with initial approximation x0 = 1, y0 = 1 using Fixed point iteration method.
Problem 8 Use the Newton method and Generalized Newton method to obtain a real root of the equation
(x + 2)3 (x − 2) = 0 correct to 0.0001 with initial guess x0 = 3.
Problem 9 The system of equations y cos(xy) + 1 = 0, sin(xy) + x − y = 0 has one solution close to
x = 1, y = 2. Calculate this solution correct to 2 decimal places.
Problem 10 Define order of convergence of an approximate method used to find the solution of an
equation f (x) = 0. Find the order of convergence of (i) the fixed point method, and (ii) the Newton
Raphson method. Between these two methods which method converge faster? Explain the reason.
Problem 11 Show that the modified Newton-Raphson method for a root of multiplicity m of the equation
f (x) = 0 given by
f (xn )
xn+1 = xn − m 0
f (xn )
will always make the convergence quadratic in the neighborhood of the root ξ, that is,
1 f (m+1) (ξ) 2
n+1 ≈ 
m(m + 1) f (m) (ξ) n
√p
Problem h12 Show that thei Newton’s formula for the pth root of a positive number N , that is, N is
√
xn+1 = p1 (p − 1)xn + xp−1
N
, n = 0, 1, · · · Compute 12 using this result with initial guess x0 = 3.5.
n
[Hint: Find a solution of xp − N = 0]