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ANECDOTES

DIFFERENTIATION

 

Effect of step size on accuracy of numerical first derivative: Forward Divided Difference  [PDF] [PPT] Effect of step size on accuracy of numerical first derivative: Backward Divided Difference[PDF][PPT]

Effect of step size on accuracy of numerical first derivative: Central Divided Difference [PDF] [PPT]

Comparing the Forward Divided Difference, Backward Divided Difference

                                          Central Divided Difference [PDF] [MWS] | [PDF] [MCD] |   [PDF] [NB]|[PDF] [MFILE]

Effect of Significant Digits on the Value of the

                                           Numerical Derivative [PDF] [MWS] | [PDF] [MCD]|[PDF] [NB]|[PDF] [MFILE]

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS

 

Quest for cubic equation solution [PDF] [DOC]

Newton [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]

Raphson [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]

Galois [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]

 

SIMULTANEOUS LINEAR EQUATIONS

 

Effect of significant digits on solution of equations

                                Simulation [MWS]  [MCD] [NB] [MFILE] | Textbook notes (pages 5-16 of) [PDF] [DOC]

Saving of computational time for finding inverse of a matrix using LU decomposition

                                          Simulation [MWS] [MCD] [NB] [MFILE]  | Textbook notes (pages 2-4 of) [PDF] [DOC]

Adequacy of Solutions [PDF] [MWS] | [PDF] [DOC]

Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors [DOC] [PDF]

Gauss [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]

 

INTERPOLATION

 

History of Interpolation [PDF] [DOC

Dangers of extrapolation through NASDAQ, [PDF] [DOC]|[MWS] [MCD] [MFILE] [NBM]

Higher order interpolation is a bad idea [PDF] [DOC]| [MWS] [MCD] [MFILE] [NBM]

Comparison of spline & polynomial interpolation [PDF] [DOC]|[MWS] [MCD] [MFILE] [NBM]

Choice of points of interpolation affects approximations [PDF] [DOC]|[MWS] [MCD] [MFILE] [NBM]

Splines help in developing a shorter path for a robot [PDF] [DOC]|[MWS] [MCD] [MFILE] [NBM]

Runge [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]

Newton [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]

Lagrange [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]

 

INTEGRATION

 

What is integration? [PDF] [DOC]

A Primer on Integral Calculus [PDF] [DOC]

Newton [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]

Cotes [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]

Gauss [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]

Simpson [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]

Romberg [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]

 

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

 

What are ordinary differential equations? [PDF] [DOC]

A primer on ordinary differential equations [PDF] [DOC]

On solving higher order and coupled ordinary differential equations [PDF] [DOC]

Euler [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]

Runge [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]

Kutta [HTML] [PDF] [DOC]


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