Error analysis and root finding
Numerical methods for engineers · Standard syllabus
Sources of error: truncation, round-off, and propagation
Objectives
- Sources of error: truncation, round-off, and propagation
- Taylor series review for error estimates
- Bisection, Newton–Raphson, and secant methods
- Fixed-point iteration and convergence criteria
- Systems of nonlinear equations (Newton's method introduction)
Study materials
- Practice testComing soon