Mathematics 210 - Spring term 2005 - Fourth assignment
This assignment requires you to submit a few more spreadsheets concerned
with series.
It is due before class time Monday, February 7.
There is some calculation to do by hand,
which should be handed in on the Commnets window.
The basic point of the first three questiosn is to
compute the Taylor series of arc sin(x) at x=0.
This is hard to do directly, but arc sin
is the integral
of 1/sqrt(1 - x2), and a power
series for this can be found
from the Taylor series of 1/sqrt(x)
at 1.
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Go to the MathSheet home page
and then to the new applet page. Open a running
copy of the spreadsheet and return to this page.
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Log in immediately: File/Log in. Your login id is your
Mathematics Department login name, and your password
is your student number. This allows you to save
and load spreadsheet files.
Save your work frequently.
To put it in simpler terms,
save your work frequently.
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Question 1.
Let f(x) = 1/sqrt(x)). Lay out in column a the
numbers n = 0, 1, 2, etc.
and in column b the first 25 derivatives of f(x) at x=1.
Do this by finding a recursion formula for
f(n+1) in terms of n and f(n).
Then lay out in column c the first 25 coefficients in the Taylor's series
of f(x) at 1,
also using a recursion formula.
Save as m210.4.1.ms. Save this work for the next question.
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Question 2.
Use the columns from the previous exercise to lay out in column d
the terms in the Taylor series
giving f(1-x2) around x=0,
where x is stored in m0.
Use the integral formula
to give in column e the Taylor series for arc sin(x),
and in column f the partial sums of this series.
Set x = 1/2.
Tell us in the comment box what the exact value of arc sin(1/2) is.
Save the spread sheet as m210.4.2.ms.
Save this work for the next question.
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Question 3.
Use the columns from the previous exercise. Lay out enough rows to
calculate the value of arc sin(x) to an acccuracy of 10 decimals.
Explain how you decided this in the comments box.
Then compute the same sum in the next free column,
but by accumulating terms from the smallest up.
Save the spread sheet as m210.4.3.ms.
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Question 4.
Lay out a spreadsheet to calculate the sum of terms
1/n8. Estimate how many terms are needed to
calculate the sum to 16 decimals, and lay out enough rows to do that.
Sum both forwards and backwards.
Comment: how many terms would be required if
you could and wanted to do 32 decimals.
Save the spread sheet as m210.4.4.ms.
If you find these questions confusing, please
write me.
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