Homework 8

[goodwine]

Reading: Read all of chapter 5, but you may skim section 5.4.

Exercises: here.

[jmcgill1]

Do we need our source code for the ones that say to 'Compare your partial sum approximations to a solution determined numerically' or just the graphs of a couple partial sum solutions comparing them to the numerical solution.

[goodwine]

Do we need our source code for the ones that say to 'Compare your partial sum approximations to a solution determined numerically' or just the graphs of a couple partial sum solutions comparing them to the numerical solution.

I would include the code for one of them and then just note that the rest are produced by similar programs (assuming that is true).

[bkenned7]

Should we have plots of approximations and solutions obtained numerically for each problem?

[kpulliam]

What exactly is meant by the "series solution" of an equation? For most of the problems I am able to find equations for the various values of a_n but I am not exactly sure where to go from there.

[goodwine]

Should we have plots of approximations and solutions obtained numerically for each problem?

Just for each problem that asks for them.

[goodwine]

What exactly is meant by the "series solution" of an equation? For most of the problems I am able to find equations for the various values of a_n but I am not exactly sure where to go from there.

If you assumed a series and provide a means to find all the coefficients, then you have the series solution.