Wednesday exercise and Lecture reading

Please take a few minutes to complete the midsemester survey announced in a previous blog post.

Exercise: Use a Taylor series to expand sin(2x) around pi/4. Also determine the Taylor series expansion of sin(x) and cos(x) around pi/4. Use your results to check the trigonometric identity sin(2x) = 2 sin(x) cos (x).

Reading for Lecture 12: (Thursday June 21)

CC 5.2 Bisection method
CC 5.4 Incremental searches
CC 6.2 Newton-Raphson method
CC 6.3 Secant method