Assignment -3
1. For the given equation x^3-x+1 using Newton's Forward Difference Formula
x1 = 2 and x2 = 4
Step value (h) = 0.5
Find f(2.25)
2. Using Newton's backward difference formula, construct an interpolating polynomial of
degree 3 for the data: f (- 0.75) = - 0.0718125, f (- 0.5) = - 0.02475, f (- 0.25) = 0.3349375,
f (0) = 1.10100. Hence find (- 13); Correct your results to five decimal places.
3. Use Gauss Backward formula to find the value of F(35) for the following data set
x 21 25 29 33 37
F(x) 18.4708 17.8144 17.1070 16.3432 15.5154
4. Use Gauss forward formula to find the value of F(1.55) for the following data set
x 1 1.25 1.5 1.75 2
F(x) 0 0.223144 0.405465 0.559616 0.693147
5. For the given equation 2x^3-4x+1 using Newton's Divided Difference Interpolation formula
x1 = 2 and x2 = 4
Step value (h) = 0.5
Find f(3.8)
6. Use Bessel’s Central difference formula to find the value of F(12.3) for the following data set
x 10 11 12 13 14
y 20.9848 22.9816 24.9781 26.9743 28.9702
7. Use Sterling’s Central difference formula to find the value of F(25) for the following data set
x 20 24 28 32
y 24 32 35 40
8. Use Newton’s divided difference formula and Lagrange’s Method to derive interpolating
polynomial for the data points (0,-1),(1,1),(2,9),(3,29),(5,129) and hence compute the value
of the point y(4)
9. Compute the Hermite interpolating polynomial and then the value of the function f(0.5)
from the following data set.
x -1 0 1 2
F(x) 2 2 2 26
F’(x) 2 0 2 68
10. Fit piecewise quadratic polynomials in the following data set
X -2 -1 0 1 3 4 5
Y 10 5 2 5 23 43 69
Hence, compute y(-0.5),y(2) and y(4.2)