MAPÚA UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF EE–ECE-CoE
INTRAMUROS, MURALLA, MANILA

Advance Electronics Engineering Mathematics

Laboratory

Experiment No.4

Experiment Title:

Numerical Differentiation

March 7, 2020 March 14, 2020

Date Performed Date Submitted

Name: Gamboa, Kurl Vincent P.

Course/Sec: ECEA106L – E03 Grade

Engr. Ernesto Vergara Jr.

Instructor
Interpretation of Results

The goals of this investigation are to characterize the diverse numerical

separation strategies and to dissect its various systems utilizing MATLAB. In the initial
segment of the trial, we are to utilize the forward, in reverse and focused limited
separated contrasts so as to appraise the subordinate of a given capacity given a stage
size. By using the orders accessible in MATLAB programming, for example, the FUN
order, and ideas presented during before tests, the primary subordinate of the given
capacities were discovered, subsequently, the got qualities were then improved by
utilizing the improved renditions of the current advantageous strategies. In light of the
outcomes, the qualities brought about playing out the forward and in reverse limited
separated contrasts are the equivalent since actually, the blunders for the forward
distinction and in reverse distinction will in general have inverse signs yet comparable
outcomes. The accompanying conditions portray them:
For forward finite divided difference,
f ( x+ h )−f (x )
f ' ( x )=
h
For backward finite divided difference,
f ( x )−f (x−h)
f ' ( x )=
h
The central finite divided difference has a different value than those two. This method
acts like an average of the forward and backward method. Because of that, this method tends to
give a better result than the former. The equation for this is,
f ( x+ h )−f ( x−h)
f ' ( x )=
2h
Finally, the Richardson’s Extrapolation is used to improve the answers obtained from
previous methods, allowing the values obtained through these methods to converge with the
actual value, given by the equation:
1
I ≅ I ( h2 ) + k
¿
2 −1
The Second part of the experiment required a user defined function to be established,
which then calculates the second derivative of a certain function, which utilizes the FUN
command as well.
Conclusion
•Finite contrast is regularly utilized as an estimation of the subordinate, ordinarily in
numerical separation.
•Certain repeat relations can be composed as contrast conditions by supplanting cycle
documentation with limited contrasts.
•An significant use of limited contrasts is in numerical investigation, particularly in
numerical differential conditions, which focus on the numerical arrangement of
customary and incomplete differential conditions. The thought is to supplant the
subsidiaries showing up in the differential condition by limited contrasts that rough them.
The subsequent strategies are called limited distinction techniques.
•The forward technique uses a point in front of the picked focal point, and subtracting
that with the underlying focal point, at that point isolating the outcome by the ideal
advance size.
•The Backward Method, in which instead of the forward technique, assesses a picked
focal point subtracting that esteem with the capacities esteem before the said focal point
and partitioning it still by an ideal advance size.
•The focal distinction strategy is somewhat similar to a normal of the forward and in
reverse technique. Since the blunders for the forward distinction and in reverse contrast
will in general have inverse signs, averaging the two past techniques would give a
superior outcome than either alone. The main subordinate is explained by taking the
contrast between the qualities ahead and before the focal point.
•The Richardson's Extrapolation is utilized to improve the appropriate responses
acquired from past strategies, permitting the qualities got through these techniques to
meet with the real worth

References:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FiniteDifference.html
http://www.math.unl.edu/~s-bbockel1/833-notes/node23.html