Homework 4 - Interpolation

Due: Monday, April 10, 2000

Reading: Gerald and Wheatley, Chapter 3

Topics
  1. Lagrangian Polynomials
  2. Divided Differences
  3. Cubic Splines
  4. Error analysis
The following problems are on page 300 of the text:

  1. 2, 6
  2. 11, 14, 19
  3. 34 - use Matlab to compute coefficients and construct cubics
  4. 36 - use Matlab to compute coefficients and compare with 34
  5. 96 - try to use Matlab to graph -

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