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3. Newton's Backward Difference formula for Derivatives (Numerical Differentiation) example ( Enter your problem )
  1. Formula & Example-1 (table data)
  2. Example-2 (table data)
  3. Example-3 (`f(x)=2x^3-4x+1`)
  4. Example-4 (`f(x)=x^3+x+2`)

1. Formula & Example-1 (table data)





Formula
1. For `x=x_n`
`[(dy)/(dx)]_(x=x_n) = 1/h * (grad Y_n + 1/2 * grad^2 Y_n + 1/3 * grad^3 Y_n + 1/4 * grad^4 Y_n + ...)`
`[(d^2y)/(dx^2)]_(x=x_n) = 1/h^2 * (grad^2 Y_n + grad^3 Y_n + 11/12 * grad^4 Y_n + ...)`
2. For any value of `x`
`[(dy)/(dx)] = 1/h * (grad Y_n + (2t+1)/2 * grad^2 Y_n + (3t^2+6t+2)/6 * grad^3 Y_n + (4t^3+18t^2+22t+6)/24 * grad^4 Y_n + ...)`
`[(d^2y)/(dx^2)] = 1/h^2 * (grad^2 Y_n + (t+1) * grad^3 Y_n + (12t^2+36t+22)/24 * grad^4 Y_n + ...)`

Examples
1. Using Newton's Backward Difference formula to find solution
xf(x)
1.44.0552
1.64.9530
1.86.0496
2.07.3891
2.29.0250

x = 2.2


Solution:
Numerical differentiation method to find solution.
The value of table for `x` and `y`

x1.41.61.822.2
y4.05524.9536.04967.38919.025

Newton's backward differentiation table is
xy`grady``grad^2y``grad^3y``grad^4y`
1.44.0552
0.8978
1.64.9530.1988
1.09660.0441
1.86.04960.24290.0094
1.33950.0535
27.38910.2964
1.6359
2.29.025


The value of x at you want to find `f(x) : x_n = 2.2`

`h = x_1 - x_0 = 1.6 - 1.4 = 0.2`


`[(dy)/(dx)]_(x=x_n) = 1/h * (grad y_n + 1/2 * grad^2 y_n + 1/3 * grad^3 y_n + 1/4 * grad^4 y_n)`

`:.[(dy)/(dx)]_(x=2.2) = 1/0.2 xx (1.6359 + 1/2 xx 0.2964 + 1/3 xx 0.0535 + 1/4 xx 0.0094)`

`:.[(dy)/(dx)]_(x=2.2) = 9.02142`


`[(d^2y)/(dx^2)]_(x=x_n) = 1/h^2 * (grad^2 y_n + grad^3 y_n + 11/12 * grad^4 y_n)`

`:.[(d^2y)/(dx^2)]_(x=2.2) = 1/0.04 * (0.2964 + 0.0535 + 11/12 xx 0.0094)`

`:.[(d^2y)/(dx^2)]_(x=2.2) = 8.96292`


`:.` `Pn'(2.2) = 9.02142` and `Pn''(2.2) = 8.96292`




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