Cheg 258 - Lecture Notes - Mar. 6 , 2000

Announcements

• In honor of midterm break, there is no homework assigned today! Get a good rest!

Class notes

The main points of the lecture were

• Root Finding in Non-Linear Equations

Goals:

• The difficulties in working with nonlinear equations.
• How to solve a nonlinear system using the method of bisection.

Reading

• The class notes and Chapter 7 of Kahaner and Hanna.

Question of the Day

• Propose a way to solve a nonlinear equation through bisection when f(a)f(b)>0 (without plotting and inspecting the function).

Matlab Example Codes

example 19