CS/MATH 3414 Assignment #3

Date Assigned: February 6, 2002
Date Due: February 13, 2002, in class, before class starts
  1. (10 points) Exercise 4.1.16 (page 157) from your textbook.
  2. (5 points) Exercise 4.1.25 (page 158) from your textbook.
  3. (10 points) Exercise 4.1.28 (page 158) from your textbook. You have the option of writing code to solve this problem. Compare your answers with the actual values (or that obtained from a software such as MATLAB).
  4. (10 points) Computer Problem 4.2.1 (page 170) from your textbook. For full credit, include a printout of code, graphs of f(x) and p(x) and an explanation of the error between the two.
  5. (15 points) Computer Problem 4.2.7 (page 171) from your textbook. For full credit, include a printout of code, graphs of f(x) and the various p(x) (with both equally spaced and Chebyshev nodes), along with some observations.

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