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CoE 3SK4 Computer-Aided Engineering

DAY CLASS Dr. T. Kirubarajan
DURATION OF EXAMINATION: 3 Hours
MCMASTER UNIVERSITY FINAL EXAMINATION April, 2006

THIS EXAMINATION PAPER INCLUDES 6 PAGES AND 6 QUESTIONS. YOU ARE
RESPONSIBLE FOR ENSURING THAT YOUR COPY OF THE PAPER IS COMPLETE.
BRING ANY DISCREPANCY TO THE ATTENTION OF YOUR INVIGILATOR.

AIDS ALLOWED: One 8.5 x 11 crib sheet (both sides)
Use of Casio FX-991 calculator only is allowed

NOTES: Answer all questions.
All major questions are of equal weight.
Show all your work and justify your answers. Partial credit will be given.
Read all questions first.
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1. Consider the integration of the function f(x) = 1/x
2
+ 1/x 1+ x + x
2
over the interval
x = 2 to x = 4.

(a) (3 marks) Use Simpsons 1/3 rule with h = 0.5 to approximate the above integral and find
the exact error.

(b) (3 marks) Repeat part (a) with the Trapezoidal rule.

(c) (4 marks) If the approximate error is to be less than 10
-3
find the value of h needed for the
Trapezoidal rule.

















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2. Consider the differential equation dy/dx = -3y+1 with initial conditions
y(-.2) = 1/3 + (2/3) e
-0.6
and y(0) = 1.

(a) (4 marks) Use Eulers method and Heuns predictor-corrector method (with two
iterations) to find the approximate values of y(0.2) and y(0.4) using a step size
of h = 0.2.

(b) (3 marks) Find the value of h if the maximum truncation error in y(h) using Eulers
method is to be 0.01 given that y(0) = 1.

(c) (3 marks) Find the analytical solution for the above equation and evaluate the exact
values of y(0.2) and y(0.4) and comment on your results from part (a).



































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3. Consider fitting the function f(x) = ba
bx
to the data (x
i
, f(x
i
)), i = 1, 2, , n. That is, a and b
are unknowns that have to be found from a sequence of n known data points (x
i
, f(x
i
)).

(a) (4 marks) Show that the above nonlinear curve-fitting problem can be written as linear
regression and obtain the two simultaneous linear equations.

(b) (4 marks) Given the following data points, find the best values for a and b.

x
i
1 2 3 4
f(x
i
)
0.5 1.2 2.8 4.1

(c) (2 marks) Find the standard error and the correlation coefficient for the above fit.






























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4. Consider the circuit in Figure 1.

Figure 1
(a) (5 marks) Derive 4 independent linear equations in terms of I
1
, I
2
, I
3
and I
4
in the form of
Ax = b.

(b) (5 marks) Solve for the above 4 unknowns using LU decomposition.






























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5. Consider the optimization of the function f(x) = (a
i
ln(x))
2
where the summation is over
i = 1, 2, , n and x is a scalar.

(a) (4 marks) Use Newtons method to find an expression for the optimum value of x and
comment on its convergence.

(b) (2 marks) Find the optimum value of x for a
1
=1, a
2
=2, a
3
=3, a
4
=4, a
5
=5 (that is, n=5).

(c) (4 marks) Use the Golden-section method to find the optimum value starting with
x
l
=0.1 and x
u
=1.0 (perform only the first three iterations).


































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6. Consider the interpolation of the function f(x) given the values f(0) = 0, f(0.4) = 0.5527 and
f(0.8) = 0.3284.

(a) (4 marks) Use a second order Newtons interpolating polynomial to find the
approximate value f(0.5). Compare it with the corresponding value interpolated using
Lagrange polynomial.

(b) (3 marks) Given an additional value f(0.6) = 0.6039, estimate the approximate error in
the above evaluation.

(c) (3 marks) Comment on the difference between polynomial regression and
interpolation problems.


































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