Universidad de la Costa

Departamento de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas

Métodos Numéricos
Ejercicios sobre el método de Newton Raphson

1. Let f (x) = x2 − 6 and p0 = 1. Use the Newton’s method to find p2 .

2. Let f (x) = −x3 − cos(x) and p0 = −1. Use the Newton’s method to find p2 . Could p2 = 0 be used?
3. Use the Newton’s method to find solutions acurrate to within 10−4 for the following problems.
a) x3 − 2x2 − 5 = 0, [1, 4]
b) x + 3x − 1 = 0,
3 2
[−3, −2]
[ π]
c) x − cos(x) = 0, 0,
2
[ π]
d ) x − 0,8 − 0,2 sin(x) = 0, 0,
2
4. Use the Newton’s method to find solutions acurrate to within 10−5 for the following problems.
a) ex + 2−x + 2 cos(x) − 6 = 0, for 1 ≤ x ≤ 2.
b) ln(x − 1) + cos(x − 1) = 0, for 1,3 ≤ x ≤ 2.
c) 2x cos(2x) − (x − 2)2 = 0, for 2 ≤ x ≤ 3 and 3 ≤ x ≤ 4.
d ) (x − 2)2 − ln(x) = 0, for 1 ≤ x ≤ 2 and e ≤ x ≤ 4.
e) ex − 3x2 = 0, for 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 and 3 ≤ x ≤ 5.