Robert Joshua G.

Ramos
4th Year BS ECE

NUMETLA
Experiment 7

Analysis
In numerical method, interpolation is a method of generating new data points from the set of
known data points. There are several methods to fit a function to a series of data points which
best describes these all points and this process is called curve fitting. Three of these methods
which are used in the experiment are the Basic Interpolation, Newton Interpolating Polynomial,
and Lagrange Interpolation.
Basic Interpolation is a type of interpolation that requires precise data points. Given these data
points, the approximation of the intermediate values between these surrounding points is
possible. One of the simplest forms of basic interpolation is called the polynomial interpolation.
Polynomial interpolation is the interpolation of a given data set using a polynomial. Polynomial
interpolation can solve for one unique polynomial of order n-1 which goes through all data
points. Once this unique polynomial is determined, the computation of any intermediate values
between the given data points is made possible.
Standard form of representing an nth order interpolating polynomial is straightforward however
there exist other representation of nth order polynomials and is called the Newton Interpolating
Polynomial. Given a set of n+1 data points, for instance data points (x i,yi), where xi are all
different values and yi are solve from an underlying function y = f(x), the nth order polynomial
can be expressed in the form given in the manual. With that expression, all powers of x are
present in the equation even the fact that the coefficients of x are not obvious. Since there are
n+1 independent coefficients bi, it is assured that there is at most an nth order polynomial that
will lie through the given data points.
Another method of interpolation is called the Lagrange Interpolation. Lagrange Interpolation is
almost the same with simple polynomial interpolation however it uses weighting coefficients
which are in the functions of given data point which is going to interpolate. There are differences
among the three but all of them are effective ways of interpolation using given data points.