Bisection Method:
Begin with the interval [0, pi/2]. The midpoint of the interval is x1 = pi/4. Calculate the value of the function at x1: f(x1) = pi/4 - cos(pi/4). Since f(x1) > 0, the solution must be in the interval [0, pi/4]. Now consider the midpoint of this interval, x2 = pi/8. Calculate the value of the function at x2: f(x2) = pi/8 - cos(pi/8). Since f(x2) < 0, the solution must be in the interval [pi/8, pi/4]. Now consider the midpoint of this interval, x3 = 3pi/16. Calculate the value of the function at x3: f(x3) = 3pi/16 - cos(3pi/16). Since f(x3) > 0, the solution must be in the interval [pi/8, 3pi/16]. Continue this process, calculating the midpoint of the interval and the value of the function at the midpoint, until the difference between the lower and upper bounds of the interval is less than or equal to the error of 0.005.
Newton’s Method:
Try an initial guess of x0 = 1. Calculate the value of the function at x0: f(x0) = 1 - cos(1). Calculate the derivative of the function at x0: f'(x0) = 1 + sin(1). Calculate the next x-value using the Newton’s method formula: x1 = x0 - f(x0)/f'(x0) = 1 - (1 - cos(1))/(1 + sin(1)) = 0.6247. Calculate the value of the function at x1: f(x1) = 0.6247 - cos(0.6247). Calculate the derivative of the function at x1: f'(x1) = 1 + sin(0.6247). Calculate the next x-value using the Newton’s method formula: x2 = x1 - f(x1)/f'(x1) = 0.6247 - (0.6247 - cos(0.6247))/(1 + sin(0.6247)) = 0.739. Continue this process until the difference between two successive x-values is less than or equal to the error of 0.005.
Secant Method:
Start with two initial x-values, x0 = 0 and x1 = 1. Calculate the value of the function at x0 and x1: f(x0) = 0 - cos(0) = 0, f(x1) = 1 - cos(1). Calculate the next x-value using the Secant method formula: x2 = x1 - f(x1)(x1 - x0)/(f(x1) - f(x0)) = 1 - (1 - cos(1))(1 - 0)/(1 - cos(1) - 0) = 0.6247. Calculate the value of the function at x2: f(x2) = 0.6247 - cos(0.6247). Calculate the next x-value using the Secant method formula: x3 = x2 - f(x2)(x2 - x1)/(f(x2) - f(x1)) = 0.6247 - (0.6247 - cos(0.6247))(0.6247 - 1)/(0.6247 - cos(0.6247) - 1) = 0.7396. Continue this process until the difference between two successive x-values is less than or equal to the error of 0.005.
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A number that makes an equation true is its solution.
The equation for the Pythagoras Theorem is written as: a2 + b2 = c2. The theory of this equation is to provide analysis of the sum of squares from 2 different sides.
It too will have a value of 5
Without an equality sign it's not an equation but it can be simplified to: 7x-5
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If this is in the context of finding a root of an equation, the answer is to make some guesses. Find value x1 and x2 such that f(x1) and f(x2) have opposite signs. Then, provided that f is a continuous function over (x1, x2), the bisection method will find its root.
The rate of convergance for the bisection method is the same as it is for every other iteration method, please see the related question for more info. The actual specific 'rate' depends entirely on what your iteration equation is and will vary from problem to problem. As for the order of convergance for the bisection method, if I remember correctly it has linear convergence i.e. the convergence is of order 1. Anyway, please see the related question.
I'm not familiar with the "bisection method" to find the roots of 2x2-5x+1 = 0 but by completing the square or using the quadratic equation formula you'll find that the solution is: x = (5 + or - the square root of 17) over 4 Hope that helps.
The main disadvantage of the bisection method for finding the root of an equation is that, compared to methods like the Newton-Raphson method and the Secant method, it requires a lot of work and a lot of iterations to get an answer with very small error, whilst a quarter of the same amount of work on the N-R method would give an answer with an error just as small.In other words compared to other methods, the bisection method takes a long time to get to a decent answer and this is it's biggest disadvantage.
A root-finding algorithm is a numerical method, or algorithm, for finding a value. Finding a root of f(x) − g(x) = 0 is the same as solving the equation f(x) = g(x).
it works exactly the same as it does with linear equations, you don't need to do any differentiation or anything fancy with this method, just have to plug in values of x, so it shouldn't make a difference if the equation is linear or nonlinear.
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x = -8 already is a solution. If an equation has been changed until the value of x is found, and this value is accurate to the original equation, then the equation has been solved.
An improved root finding scheme is to combine the bisection and Newton-Raphson methods. The bisection method guarantees a root (or singularity) and is used to limit the changes in position estimated by the Newton-Raphson method when the linear assumption is poor. However, Newton-Raphson steps are taken in the nearly linear regime to speed convergence. In other words, if we know that we have a root bracketed between our two bounding points, we first consider the Newton-Raphson step. If that would predict a next point that is outside of our bracketed range, then we do a bisection step instead by choosing the midpoint of the range to be the next point. We then evaluate the function at the next point and, depending on the sign of that evaluation, replace one of the bounding points with the new point. This keeps the root bracketed, while allowing us to benefit from the speed of Newton-Raphson.
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A linear equation in one variable has one solution. An equation of another kind may have none, one, or more - including infinitely many - solutions.