Exercises

  1. Find the Taylor polynomial T4 (x) of order 3 for the function y=lnx at the point x0=4. Write down the Taylor's formula for this function with R4 (x).

  2. Find the MacLaurin polynomial of order 4 for the function y=ln(1+x). Write down the MacLaurin's formula for this function with R5(x). Estimate the error of approximation of ln(1,3) by T0 (0,3), where T0 is MacLaurin polynomial of order 4 of the function y=ln(1+x).

  3. Write down the Taylor's formula with the remainder of order 3 for the function f (x) = 1/x1/2 at the point x0=1. Estimate the error of approximation of f (11/10) by T1 (11/10), where T1 is Taylor polynomial of order 2 at the point x0=1.

  4. Write down the Taylor's formula with R3 (x) for the function f (x)=x1/3 at the point x0=64. Estimate the error of approximation of

  5. Find the MacLaurin polynomial of order 4 for the function f (x)=sinx and estimate the accuracy of the approximate formula sinxT0 (x) for xp/6.

  6. Using MacLaurin expansion of elementary functions find Taylor series of the following functions at a given point:

  7. Using the Newton's method find an approximate value of the root of the equation f (x) = 0 from the interval [a, b] (in 3 steps). Show that this method can be applied.

    a) f (x) = x5-x-1,   [a, b] = [1, 2]

    b) f (x) = ex-2(x-1)2,   [a, b] = [0,1].