Lecture 12 of Numerical methods (wi2604)

• The following subjects are discussed:
  
  
  • non-linear equation, Newton Raphson, quadratic convergence, termination criterion
  • Newton Raphson for systems of non-linear equations
  • Newton Raphson for non-linear boundary value problem
    
    
  Corresponding pages in the lecture notes: pages 42-47 and 121
  
  
• Historical remarks
  
  
• Excercises and answers
  
  
• Additional information
  
  
  • Dutch explanation of the Newton Raphson method.
  • English explanation of the Newton Raphson method with a nice Java example.