Universitt Duisburg-Essen a Fakultt fr Mathematik a u Computational Mechanics Dipl.-Math. Andreas Fischle Dipl.-Math.

Alexander Heinlein

Winter Term 2011/12 12. Oktober 2011

Introduction to Numerical Methods Homework 1

This rst set of homeworks is intended to introduce you to the Matlab programming language in a playful way. It may be helpful to use the diary function to document the output of Matlab.

Exercise 1: (5 Points / Programming)

4 (i) Use Matlab to print the machine representations of the real numbers 3 , 0.0000012345 and 1.2345e06 in the following formats

(1) short ; short e ; short g (2) long ; long e ; long g (3) rat and explain the results. What is the meaning of e in this context? (ii) What happens if you use the following commands in Matlab (1) f 1 = 3 3 ; (2) f 2 = 33 ; (3) f 3 = 3.2 (4) 3 + 3 (5) disp(Hello world!); disp(Introduction to Numerical Methods); What is the dierence between g1 and g2, cf., (2) and (3)? g1 = [3 , 1; 1 , 3]3 g2 = [3 , 1; 1 , 3] .3

Exercise 2: (5 Points / Programming) Let A = (aij )i,j=1...n be the matrix with entries aij = i/j and x the vector xj = j for j = 1 . . . n, i.e., 1 1 n 1 1 2 3 1 .. 2 2 2 . n 2 1 3 3 3 ... ... 3 , x = 3 . A= n . . .2 . ... . . . . . .. .. . . n n n 1 2 (i) Try three dierent ways to build the matrix A, i.e., (1) using 2 nested for-loops (for k=1... for l=1... A(k,l)=k/l; end end) (2) using one vector and one for-loop (k=1:n; for l=1... A(:,l) = k/l; end) (3) using the product of two vectors (k=(1:n); l=ones(1,n)./k; A = k * l;) (ii) Build the matrix A and the vector x in Matlab and compute the matrixvector product y = Ax for n = 3, 5, 10, 100, 1000. Verify the solution by your theoretical knowledge on matrix-vector multiplication. Exercise 3: (6 Points / Programming) (i) Write a MATLAB function function x = make inter(n) which takes a number of nodes n and returns a vector x containing n equidistant nodes 1 with a constant spacing h = n1 in the interval [0, 2] R. (ii) Plot the functions sin(x) and cos(x) separately on this interval with h = 0.01. How many nodes do you need? (iii) Plot the sin(x) function for every step size h = 1, 0.5, 0.1, 0.01 and superimpose all of these plots to obtain a single combined plot.

Due date: Thursday, 20 October 2011 Please, follow the guidelines described in the Syllabus on the homepage which describes how to turn in your homework. Thank you for your cooperation.