If you are reading this post on a Saturday (Feb 21), that means, the exam will be tomorrow at the COE Amphitheater, 2-5PM.

midterm quiz - 2

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ES 84 SAMPLE PROBLEM-midterms - Get more Business Documents

Here are the powerpoint slides used during our lectures (in the zip file):
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Take note of the Exam Coverage:
1. Bracketing Methods
2. Open Methods
3. Multiroot
4. Bairstow Methods (Root of Polynomials)
5. Optimization

Determine the real roots of f(x) = -1 + 5.5x - 4x^2 + 0.5x^3
(a) graphically and
(b) using the Newton-Raphson method to within Es = 0.01%. (use initial guesses x=0, x=2 and x=6)