Lecture 13 of Numerical methods I (wi2604)

• The following subjects are discussed:
  
  
  • Numerical integration, approximation error, rounding error
  • Trapezoidal rule, Simpson's rule, Newton-Cotes formulas, composite integration rules
    
    
  Corresponding pages in the lecture notes: pages 48-61
  
  
• Historical remarks
  
  
• Excercises and answers
  
  
• Additional information
  
  
  • Part of this lecture is given by a Guest docent (Dutch).
  • Explanation of the Trapezoidal rule.
  • Explanation of the Simpson's rule with a nice Java example.