PLEASE HELP with Forward, backward, and central difference approximations?
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Hi I am really confused on how to approach this problem, I have started a little but am really not sure where to go from here so any help would be appreciated.
Consider the function f(x) =(1+ x^2 )^-1 defined on [-5, 5] . Choose equally-spaced grid points xi = -5+ih, where i=0,..,n and h=10/n with n= 11,21,51,101.
Approximate f'(xi) for i=1,..,n-1 using forward difference, backward difference, central difference approximations. Plot the results.
So far this is what i have:
f = @(x) ((1+x.^2).^(-1));
fprime = @(x) (-2*x)./((1+x.^2).^(2));
n=11;21;51;101;
h=10/n;
for i=1:n+1
x(i)=-5+(i-1)*h
end
x=linspace(-5,5,x(i));
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il 5 Feb 2017
You need brackets around the list of numbers where you define n. And you need to have the computation of h in a loop. See if this makes sense:
f = @(x) ((1+x.^2).^(-1));
fprime = @(x) (-2*x)./((1+x.^2).^(2));
n = [11;21;51;101]
h = 10 ./ n
for nIndex = 1 : length(n)
this_n = n(nIndex)
% for this value of n...
% Compute this value of h...
this_h = 10 / this_n
% Now loop over i to compute x...
for i = 1 : this_n
x(i) = -5 + i * this_h
end
end
There are ways to do it without loops (using meshgrid) but they might be too confusing to you so I'm doing the simple, intuitive for loop way.
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