2335 Extra Suggested Exercises

The problems listed here are from Atkinson & Han 3rd Edition. You may wish to use these to hone your skills and master course concepts. They will not be turned in or graded in any way for course credit.

Section:   Problems

1.1: #2(a, b, d), 3(a, b, c), 4, 5, 12

1.2: #1, 5, 6, 7, 17

2.2: #1, 4, 5(b, c, e), 6(a, f, h)

2.3: #1, 4, 5(a, b, c, d)

3.1: #1(d, f) (perhaps use a larger tolerance such as 0.1 or 0.01 if doing it by hand), 10, 11, 12

3.2: #1, 2(b, c, d), 3, 8

3.3: #1(a, b, c, d) (write a computer program, or use a higher tolerance such as 0.0001 if using a hand calculator)

3.5: #2 (see if you can determine the order of the root near 1)

4.1: #1a, 2b, 6, 8, 21(a) (Try considering the simplest case, a power function f(x) = x^m.)

4.2: #2

4.3: #2(a), 3(a and c), 13,14

4.5: #2, 7

4.6: #1(a and b)

5.1: #1, 2(a, d, f), 3(a, d, f), 5(a) (Perhaps computing using up to 16 subintervals for 2, 3, & 5.)

5.2: #1, 5

5.3: #1, 2(a, d, f), 4(a, c), 8 (find weights), 9 (find weights and node)

5.4: #1, 6, derive a formula for 5.93 on page 237