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Technische Universitat Munchen WT 2007/08Institut fur InformatikProf. Dr. H.-J. BungartzDipl.-Tech. Math. S. Schraufstetter February 21, 2008

Numerical Programming I (for CSE)Final Exam

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General Instructions

Material: You may only use one hand-written sheet of paper (size A4, on both pages). All othermaterial including electronic devices of any kind are forbidden.

Use the exam paper that was handed out to solve the exercises. It is recommendable to starta new page for every problem.

Do not use a pencil, or red or green ink.

General hint: Often, exercises b), c), etc. can be solved without the results from the previousexercise a): if you are stuck with exercise a, then dont immediately skip exercises b, c, etc.

Show the working in your answers and give reasons for your statements or conclusions.

Maximum score: The maximum score is 40 points plus a bonus of 5 points. Grades will be com-puted relatively to a maximum score of 40 points.

17 points are required to pass the exam.Working time: 90 minutes.

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1) Floating Point Numbers and Rounding ( 4+2 = 6 points)

a) Let f : R R be a mapping defined by

f(x) = 5ex 5.

Compute the relative rounding error rd(f(x)) f(x)f(x) ,

where rd(f(x)) takes the rounding errors into account when evaluating f(x). Negation doesnot produce any rounding errors. Is the computer-based evaluation of f stable?

b) Consider the following two Matlab programs:

function x = function A(p,q)

x = -p/2 + sqrt(p^2-4*q)/2;

end

function x = function B(p,q)

z = -p/2 - sqrt(p^2-4*q)/2;x = q/z;

end

Both programs return a solution of the quadratic equation x2 + px + q = 0. Evaluating theformulas analytically, you would get the same result x in both cases. Evaluating the formulaswith Matlab, you get:

input output 1 output 2

p q x x*x+p*x+q x x*x+p*x+q

101 1 0.09901951359278 0 0.09901951359278 010

2 1 0.00999900019995 0 0.00999900019995 -0.0000000000002810

3 1 0.00099999900000 0 0.00099999899999 -0.0000000000150710

4 1 0.00009999999900 0 0.00009999999929 0.0000000029277710

5 1 0.00001000000000 0 0.00001000000339 0.0000003386357610

6 1 0.00000100000000 0 0.00000100000761 0.0000076144943710

7 1 0.00000010000000 0 0.00000009965152 -0.0034848451614310

8 1 0.00000001000000 0 0.00000000745058 -0.2549419403076210

9 1 0.00000000100000 0 0 -1.0000000000000010

10 1 0.00000000010000 0 0 -1.0000000000000010

11 1 0.00000000001000 0 0 -1.000000000000001012 1 0.00000000000100 0 0 -1.00000000000000

In the second column of both outputs, you can see whether the solution x fulfills x2+px+q 0.

Assign the outputs 1 and 2 to the programs function A and function B (give reasons for yourdecision!) and state which program you would choose for solving the equation x2 +px1 = 0for some p 0.

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2) Interpolation ( 3+3+1+1 = 8 points)

Consider the mapping

f : [0, 2] [0, 1], f(x) = sinx

2

.

a) To approximate the mapping f, find the interpolant p(x) that interpolates f at the three

support points P0, P1, and P2 with support abscissas

x0 = 0, x1 = 1, x2 = 2.

Compute the divided differences and give a closed representation of the interpolant

p(x) = a0 + a1 (x x0) + a2 (x x0)(x x1).

with the help of Newtons interpolation formula.

b) To get a higher accuracy, another support point P3 with support abscissa x3 =13

is added.

Find the new interpolant that interpolates the four points P0, P1, P2, and P3.

c) Let p1(u) be the interpolant with general support abscissas {u0, u1, u2, u3} and p2(u) be theinterpolant with general support abscissas {u1, u2, u3, u4}. Find the interpolant p3(u) withsupport abscissas {u0, u1, u2, u3, u4} based on p1(u) and p2(u)!

d) Which kind of interpolant would you choose, if 50 support points had to be interpolated?Give reasons for your answer!

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3) Numerical Quadrature ( 4+1+3+3 = 11 points)

Consider the integral ba

f(x)dx,

where f is a function f : R R.

a) Formulate a Matlab program

function y = simpson sum(f,a,b,n)

that computes an approximation of the value of the integral based on the Simpson sum withn subintervals, i.e. with n + 1 function evaluations of f.

b) What does the Simpson sum with n = 4 subintervals return for f(x) = x2, a = 0, and b = 4?

c) Approximating the integral

I :=

4

0

x2dx

with the trapezoidal sum leads to

I T1 = 24 in case of n1 = 2 subintervals,

I T2 = 22 in case of n2 = 4 subintervals.

Compute an extrapolation step to get a better approximation! How many further extrap-olation steps (e.g. using the trapezoidal sum with n3 = 8, n4 = 16,. . . subintervals) arereasonable? Why?

d) How many partitions (subintervals) n are at least necessary to compute the integral

10

cos(2x)dx

with the trapezoidal sum with an error of not greater than 175

?

You may use the estimates | sin(x)| 1, | cos(x)| 1.

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4) Solving Systems of Linear Equations ( 2+3+2+2 = 9 points)

Consider the following Matlab code:

function A = func(A)

for k=1:n

for j=1:k-1A(k,k)=A(k,k)-A(k,j)^2;

end

A(k,k) = sqrt(A(k,k));

for i=k+1:n

for j=1:k-1

A(i,k) = A(i,k)-A(i,j)*A(k,j);

end

A(i,k)=A(i,k)/A(k,k);

end

end

end

a) Which algorithm is implemented by the program func(A) and what does it return as result?What is the complexity of the algorithm?

b) Find an LU factorization of

A =

4 2 32 3 0

4 4 9

.

c) Give two reasons for pivoting (in general)!d) Why are direct solving methods not suitable for large sparse systems of linear equations?

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5) Solving Ordinary Differential Equations ( 2+3+2+4 = 11 points)

Consider the initial value problem

y(t) = (y(t))2 t 1,

y(1) = 1.

It is known that y(t) > 0 for all t 1.

a) Solve the initial value problem analytically via separation of the variables.

b) Let yk be a numerical approximation of y(tk). Apply the implicit Euler method (backwardEuler method) to find an approximation yk+1 y(tk+1) in tk+1 = tk + h.Perform one step of the implicit Euler method with stepwidth h = 1

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of the solution of the initial value problem at t = 1.25 (note that y(t) > 0).

c) Instead of solving the implicit Euler formula directly, the value yk+1 could also be computed

iteratively by solving the non-linear equation numerically. The three plots of figure 1 show theerror reduction (depending on the number of iteration steps) for the following three methodsexemplarily when solving the non-linear equation of b):

(A) the bisection method (with initial interval [0, 10]),

(B) Newtons method (with initial value 10)

(C) the secant method (with initial interval [0, 10]).

Assign every method one of the plots!

d) Apply Newtons method to solve the non-linear equation of b) for yk+1 numerically: For this

purpose, specify an appropriate function g and show that the application of Newtons methodto the function g leads to the iteration rule

y(j+1)k+1 :=

h (y(j)k+1)

2 + yk

2hy(j)k+1 + 1

,

where j denotes the index of Newtons iteration. What might be a good initial value y(0)k+1?

Why is the choice of the initial point important?

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plot 1 plot 2

plot 3

Figure 1: Solving non-linear equations: error plotted against the number of iteration steps (semi-logarithmic plots)

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