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Roots of Equations in ENGR 391 by Megat Iqbal Faris is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses numerical methods for finding the roots or zeros of nonlinear equations. It begins by introducing graphical and bracketing methods, such as the bisection method, for solving equations. The bisection method uses two initial guesses that bracket the root and iteratively narrows the interval containing the root. The document also discusses the false position method, which improves on bisection by taking the slope of the line between initial guesses into account. It notes some limitations
- Author
- Megat Iqbal Faris
- Language
- EN