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Bisection Technique

  1. What?
  2. Why?
  3. Method:
  4. Algorithm:
  5. Drawbacks:
  6. Stopping Criterions:

    The best criterion is:

  7. Convergence:

    It:

  8. Rate of Convergence \ Error Bound:
  9. The problem of Percision:
    We use,
  10. The Signum Function:
    We use,


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Fixed-Point Problems

  1. Fixed Point:
  2. Root-finding problems and Fixed-point problems:

    Root Finding and Fixed-point problems are

  3. Why?:
  4. Existence and Uniqueness of a Fixed Point.:

Fixed-Point Iteration

  1. Approximating Fixed-Points:
  2. Algorithm:
  3. Convergence:
    • Fixed-Point Theorem:
    • Error bound in using \(p_n\) for \(p\):

      Notice:

  4. Using Fixed-Points:

    Question: \(\ \ \ \ \\)

    Answer:

  5. Newton’s Method as a Fixed-Point Problem:


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Newton’s Method

  1. What?:
    • Newton’s (or the Newton-Raphson) method is:


  2. Derivation:
  3. Algorithm:
  4. Stopping Criterions:

Convergence using Newton’s Method

  1. Convergence Theorem:
    Theorem:

    The crucial assumption is


    Theorem 2.6 states that,
    (1)

    (2)

The Secant Method

  1. What?
    In Newton’s Method
    We approximate \(f'( p_n−1)\) as:

    To produce:

  2. Why?

    \(\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \\):

    Frequently,

    Note:

  3. Algorithm:
  4. Convergence Speed:

The Method of False Position

  1. What?
  2. Why?
  3. Method:
  4. Algorithm:


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Order of Convergence

  1. Order of Convergence:
  2. Important, Two cases of order:
  3. An arbitrary technique that generates a convergent sequences does so only linearly:

    Theorem 2.8 implies

  4. Conditions to ensure Quadratic Convergence:
  5. Theorems 2.8 and 2.9 imply:
    (i)

    (ii)

  6. Newtons’ Method Convergence Rate:

Multiple Roots

  1. Problem:
  2. Zeros and their Multiplicity:
  3. Identifying Simple Zeros:
    • Theorem:
    • Generalization of Theorem 2.11:

      The result in Theorem 2.12 implies

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  4. Why Simple Zeros:

    Example:

  5. Handling the problem of multiple roots:
    • We \(\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \\)
    • We define \(\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \\) as:
    • Derivation:
    • Properties:


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Aitken’s \(\Delta^2\) Method

  1. What?
  2. Why?
  3. Derivation:
  4. Del [Forward Difference]:
  5. \(\hat{p}_n\) [Formula]:
  6. Generating the Sequence [Formula]:

Steffensen’s Method

  1. What?:
  2. Zeros and their Multiplicity:
  3. Difference from Aitken’s method:
    • Aitken’s method:
    • Steffensen’s method:

    Notice

  4. Algorithm:
  5. Convergance of Steffensen’s Method:


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Algebraic Polynomials

  1. Fundamental Theorem of Algebra:
  2. Existance of Roots:
  3. Polynomial Equivalence:

    This result implies

Horner’s Method

  1. What?
  2. Why?
  3. Horner’s Method:
  4. Algorithm:
  5. Horner’s Derivatives:
  6. Deflation:
  7. MatLab Implementation:

Complex Zeros: Müller’s Method

  1. What?
    • It is a:
    • Müller’s method uses
  2. Why?
    1. First:

    2. Second:

      If the initial approximation is a real number,

  3. Complex Roots:
  4. Algorithm:
  5. Calculations and Evaluations:
    Müller’s method can: