DEPARTMENT O F MATHEMATICS

NUMERICAL METHODS /10210 MA109

(CIVIL/MECH/AERO)
QUESTION BANK

UNIT-1

Part –A (2MARKS QUESTIONS)

1. Define order of convergence of newton’s Rapsons method.

2. Explain Gauss Seidal method to solve a system of simultaneous equation

3. State a condition for Gauss – Jacobi method of converges.

4. W rite a sufficient condition for Gauss – seidal method to converge.

5. When the method of iteration will be useful?

6. Explain Gauss -Seidal methods to solve a system of simultaneous equation.

7. State a condition for Gauss – Jacobi method of converges

8. Derive Newton Raphson formula to find the cube root of a positive number k.

9. Locate the negative root of x3 – 2x + 5 = 0 approximately.

10. Explain Gauss – elimination method to solve Ax = B?

11. Explain briefly Gauss – Jordan iteration to solve simultaneous equations.

12. Show that Newton’s – Raphson – formula to find or can be expressed in

the form xn+1 = n = 0, 1, 2 …

13. Evaluate applying Newton formula.

14. Explain briefly Gauss – Jordan iteration to solve simultaneous equations.

15 Establish an iteration formula to find the reciprocal of a positive number N by

Newton Raphson method.

16. Give the name of any two iteration methods in Numerical methods.

17. What is the order of converges in Newton Raphsons method.

18. When should we not use Newton – Raphson method?

19. Compare Gauss elimination and Gauss seidel methods.

20. What are the merits of Newton’s method of iteration?

21 How to reduce the number of iterations while finding the root of an equation by
regular flair method.

22. What is the order of convergence for fixed point iteration?

23. Compare Gaussian elimination method and Gauss-Jordan method.

24. Compare Gauss Jacobi and Gauss seidel methods.

25. Distinguish between Direct and iterative methods of solving simultaneous

equations. 29. What are the merits of Newton’s method of iteration?

26. When should we not use Newton – Raphson method?

PART-B (8MARKS)

1. Find the real positive root of 3x-cosx-1=0 by Newton’s method correct to 6

decimal places.

2. Find the approximate root of xe x = 3 by Newton’s Rapson method correct to

three decimal places.
3. using the Gauss – Jordan method solve the following equation.

10x + y + z = 12

2x + 10y +z = 13

x + y + 5z = 7

4. Solve the following equation using Jacobi iteration method

20x + y – 2z = 17

3x + 20y – z = - 18

2x – 3y + 20z = 25

5. Using Newton raphson method to find correct to four decimals the root between
0 and 1 of the equation x3 – 6 x + 4 = 0.

6. Using power method to find the dominant Eigen values and Eigen vector of

7. Solve the equation x2-2x-3=0 for the positive root by iteration method.

[ ]
2 2 6
. Using Gauss-Jordan method, find the inverse of
2 6 −6
8 4 −8 −8

9. Using Gauss-Seidel iterative method, obtain an approximate solution of the

system:28 x 1+ 4 x 2−x 3=32
x 1+ 3 x 2 +10 x3 =24

2 x1 +17 x 2+ 4 x 3=35.

10 .Solve by Gauss Elimination method the following systems

2 x 1 + x 2+ x3 =10 ,
3 x 1+2 x 2+ 3 x 3=18 ,
x 1 +4 x2 +9 x 3=16.
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25 1 2
11. Find the largest Eigen value of the matrix 1 3 0 and corresponding Eigen
2 0 −4
vector.

12. Solve the following system of equations by Gauss Jacobi method

27x+6y-z=85

x+y+54z=110

6x+15y+2z=72

13. Find the dominant Eigen value and the corresponding Eigen vector of

[ ]
1 6 1
A¿ 1 2 0
0 0 3

14. Find also the least latent root and hence the third Eigen value also.

15. Find the inverse of the matrix using Gauss Jordan method.

16. Solve by Gauss – seidal method of iteration the equation.

10x1 + x2 + x3 = 12

2x1 + 10x2 + x3 = 13

2x1 +2x2 + 10x3 = 14

17. Using Newton Rapson method to find correct to four decimals the root between
0 and 1 of the equation x3 – 6 x + 4 = 0.

[ ]
2 2 3
18. Using Gauss-Jordan method, find the inverse of the matrix 2 1 1
1 3 5

[ ]
5 0 1
19. Using power method, find all the Eigen values of A= 0 −2 0
1 0 5
 UNIT-2
INTERPOLATION

Part-A (2 MARKS QUSTIONS)

1. State Lagrange inter polation formula.

2. What is the Lagrange’s formula to find y, if three sets of values (x 0.y0),

(x1,y1)andx2,y2)are given.

3. What advantage has Lagrange’s formula over Newton?

4. Write the formula for Newton forward and Newton Backward differences.

5. What is inverse interpolation?

6. Give the inverse of Lagrange’s interpolation formula.

7. Define divided difference?

8. Find the divided difference for the following data.

x: 2 5 10
y: 5 29 109
9. Give the newton’s divided difference interpolation formula?

10. State any two properties of divided difference.

11. When Newton’s backward interpolation formula is used?

Part –B (8 MARKS QUESTIONS)

1. A function f(x) is given by the following table. Find f(0.2) by a suitable formula

x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

F(x) 176 185 194 203 212 220 229

2. Using Lagrange’s interpolation formula, find the value of y corresponding to x =
10 from the following table

x 5 6 9 11

f(x) 12 13 14 16

3. Find the value of x when y = 85, using Lagrange’s formula from the following
table

x 2 5 8 14

y 94.8 87.9 81.3 68.7

4. using Lagrange’s interpolation, calculate the profit in the year 2000 from the
following data

Year: 1997 1999 2001 2002

Profit in lakh’s 43 65 159 248
of RS
5. Find the third degree polynomial f(x) satisfying data.

X 1 3 5 7
y 24 120 336 720
6.Using Newton’s divided difference formula , find u(3) given u(1)=-
26,u(2)=12,u(4)=256,u(6)=844.

6. Find the lagrangian interpolation polynomial for the following data.

X: 1 2 3 5
F(x): 0 7 26 124
7.using lagrangian interpolation formula find f(4) given that
f(0)=2,f(2)=12,f(15)=3587.

8. Find the age corresponding to the annuity value 13.6 given the table.

Age(x): 30 35 40 45 50
Annuity 15.9 14.9 14.1 13.3 12.5
value(y)
9. Find f (8) by Newton’s divided difference formula for the data.

X 4 5 7 10 11 13
F(x) 48 100 294 900 1210 2028
10. Obtain the cubic spline approximation for the function y=f(x) from the
following data, given that y0’’=y3”=0

x -1 0 1 2
y -1 1 3 35
11. Using Newton’s forward interpolation formula, find the polynomial f(x)
satisfying the following data. Hence evaluate y at x=5

x 4 6 8 10
y 1 3 8 10
12. From the data given below, find the number of students whose weight is given
between 60 to 70

Weight’s 0-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 100

in lbs.
No. of 250 120 100 70 50
students:
 UNIT-3

NUMERICAL DIFFERENTIATION AND INTEGRATION

Part-A (2 MARKS QUSTIONS)

1. State Newton’s formula to find f1(x) using the forward differences.

dy
2. Find dx at x=1 from the following table.

x 1 2 3 4
y 1 8 27 64
dy
3. Write the formula for dx at x =¿ x0 using forward differences operator. .(A)4.
Why is trapezoidal rule so called?

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b

5. State the trapezoidal rule to∫ f ( x ) dx.

a

6. Evaluate ∫ 1/ x dx by trapezoidal rule, dividing the range into a equal parts.

1 /2

7. State Simpsons rule.

1
8. State Simpson’s 3
rd rule. Write down the formula for Simpson’s one –third
rule.

9. When does Simpsons rule giv exact result?

10. State Simpsons three eight rule.

11. What is the order of error in Simpsons formula?

12. What is the local error term in trapezoidal formula?

π

13. using trapezoidal rule evaluate ∫ sinxdx by dividing the range in to 6equal
0

parts

14. State three point Gaussian quadrature formulas.

15. State two point Gaussian quadrature formulas.

16. If the rang is not (-1, 1) then what is the idea to solve the Gaussian quadrature
problems.

17. When does Simpson’s rule give exact result?

18. Write the formula of double integration by using Simpson’s rule.

19. By evaluating by a numerical iteration method, find the value?

20. Write the divided difference table for the following

x 1 2 4 7 12

f(x) 22 30 82 106 206

21. What is the general Newton-Cotes quadrature formula?

22. What is the order of error in the Simpson’s formula is the order?
Part –B (8 MARKS QUESTIONS)

1. Find the first second and 3 rd derivatives of the function tabulated below at the
point x=1.5?

X 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0

F(x) 3.375 7.0 13.625 24.0 38.87 59.0

2.The population of certain town is shown in the following table.

Year 1931 1941 1951 1961 1971

Population 40.6 60.8 79.9 103.6 132.7

(in
thousands)

Find the rate of growth of the population in the year 1961.

3. Using Romberg’s Method compute correct to 4 decimal places.

4. Evaluate by dividing the range of initiation in to 4 equal parts using (i)

Trapezoidal rule (ii) Simpson’s rule.

5. The velocity v of a partial ad distances from a point on its path is given by the
table.

F 0 10 20 30 40 50 60

V 47 58 64 65 61 52 38

Estimate the time taken to travel 60feet by using Simpson’s one third value.
Compare the result with Simpson’s 3/8 rule.

6. Evaluate by Gauss 3 point formula

7. Evaluate to integral

Using the trapezoidal rule with h = k = 0.5 and h = k = 0.25

8. Using Trapezoidal and Simpson’s rule evaluate

9. Compute f1 (0) and f11 (4) from the data.

X 0 1 2 3 4
y 1 2.718 7.381 20.086 54.598
10. Find the maximum and minimum value of y tabulated below. .(A)

x -2 -1 0 1 2 3 42
-0.25y0 -2 -0.25 0 -0.25 2 15.75 56
 π /2

11. Dividing the rang in to 10 equal parts, find the value of ∫ sinx dx by I)
0

trapezoidal rule) Simpsons rule.

2

12. Valuate ∫ x dx
2
+4
using Romberg’s method .hence obtain an approximate value
0

for π
π /2 1.4 2.4

13. Evaluate ∫ sint dt by Gaussian two –point formula. 14. Evaluate ∫ ∫ 1/ xy dx dy

0 1 2

by using trapezoidal rule and Simpsons rule. Verify your result by actual
integration.)
1
1
14. Using Simpsons rule. Evaluate∫ dx dy
0 1+ x+ y

dx dy taking = k=0.5
 UNIT-4

NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Part-A

2marks Questions
1. State the dis advantage of Taylor series method

2. Write down the fourth order Taylor algorithm.

3. Write the merits and demerits of the Taylor method of solution

4, Explain single step method

5. Explain Taylor series?

6. Explain Euler method.

7. Explain multi step method?

8. Given an example of multi step method.

9. Give an example of multistep method.

10. Write down the formula for Taylor series

11. Write down the formula for Euler’s method or Euler’s algorithm?

12. What is the formula for improved Euler’s method?

13. What is the formula for modified Euler’s method?

14. What is Milne’s predictor formula?

15, what is Milne’s corrector formula?

16. Write down Adam – Bash forth predictor formula?

Part-B (8marks questions)

1. Solve dy /dx= x+ y , given y (1)=0 ,∧get y (1.1), y (1.2) by Taylor series method.
Compare your result with the analysis.

2. Using Taylor method compute y (0.2) and y(0.4) correct to 4 decimal places

given

3. Solve y + x with y (0) = 1, z (0) = 1, by taking h = 0.1, to get y

(0.1) and z (0.1). Here y and z are dependent variables and x is independent

4. Evaluate the values of y (0.1) and y (0.2) given y’’ – x (y’)2 +y2 = 0; y (0) =1, y’
(0) =0 by using Taylor series method?

5. Using improved Euler method find y at x =0.1 and y at x =0.2 give =y- ,
y (0) = 1

6. Apply the fourth order Runge – kutta method, to find y (0.2) given that y’ = x +
y, y (0) = 1

7. Using the Runge – kutta method, tabulate the solution of the system = x +z,

= x-y, y = 0, z =1 when x = 0 at intervals of h = 0.1 from x = 0.0 to x =0.2.

8. Solve using Runge – kutta method for x = 0.2 correct to 4

decimal places. Initial condition are x = 0, y =1, y’ = 0
9. The differential equation = y –x2 is satisfied by y (0) = 1, y (0.2) = 1.12186, y
(0.4) = 1.46820, y (0.6) = 1.7379 compute the value of y (0.8) by Milne’s predictor
corrector formula?

10. Using Taylor’s series method, solve =xy+y2, y (0) = 1 at x = 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3
continue the solve at x = 0.4 by. Milne’s predictor corrector method

11. Solve y1 = ; y (0) = 1 by Runge– kutta method of fourth order to find y

(0.2).

12. Solve with y (0) =1 use Taylor series at x = 0.2, and 0.4 find x =
0.1.

30. Given yI = 1 – y and y(0) = 0 find y(0.1) by Euler method (ii) y(0.2) by
modified Euler method. (iii) y(0.4) by Milne’s’ method.

31. Using R.K. method of 4th order solve with y(0) = 1 at x = 0.2

32. Using Runge Kutta Method calculate y (0.1), y (0.2), y (0.3), given that

. Taking these values as starting values find y(0.4) by

Milne’s’ method.
 UNIT-5

NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

2marks questions

1. What is difference quotient?

2. How to the classify a partial differential equations
3. Classify the partial differential equation x fxx+y fyy= 0, x>0, y>0

4. Classify the pde fxx+2fxy+4fyy=0

5. Classify one dimensional wave equation.

6. Classify one dimensional heat equation.

7. Classify Laplace equation is two dimensions Laplace equation is

8. Classify Laplace equation is two dimensions Laplace equation is

9. Classify Poisson’s equation.

10. Write down the standard five point formula (SFPF)

11. Write down the diagonal five point formula (DFPF)

12. Why we prefer the standard formula to the diagonal formula.

13. Write down explicit formula for Bender – Schmidt method.

14. Write down Bender-Schmidt recurrence equation

15. Write down the formula for Poisson equation.

16. Write down Crank-Nicholson difference scheme or methods.

18. When =1, what is the crank-Nicholson formula.

19. Name two methods that you use to solve one dimensional heat equation.

20. Write down standard five point formula is showing laplace equation over a
region.

Part-B (8marks questions)

1. Solve given y1 (0) = 0 and y (1) =1.

2. Use crank-Nicholson method, solve ut=uxx, subject to u(x,0)=0,u(0,t)=0 and

u(1,t) = t, taking for one time step.

3. Solve with the conditions U(x,0)=0, u(0,t)=0 and u(1,t)=t compute is

for t = in two steps using crank –Nicholson formula.

4. Solve given that u(x,0)=20, u(0,t)=0, u(5,t)=100.

Compute u for one time step with h=1 by crank – Nicholson method.

5. Solve the Poisson equation 2u=- (x+y)2 over the square region bounded by the
lines x=0,y=0,x=0,y=3 given that u=0 throughout the boundaries taking h=1.

6 Solve with boundary conditions and initial

conditions.
7. Solve over the square mesh with sides
x=0,y=0,x=3,y=3 with u=0 on the boundary and mesh length 1 unit
8. Solve, uxx +uyy=0 over the square mesh of 4 units, satisfying the
following boundary conditions.