Root Finding and Interpolation

About this course

Bisection, Newton's method, secant method. Lagrange/Newton interpolation, splines.

• 20 lessons
• 2 h
• intermediate

What you'll learn

• Describe the scope and sequence of the course
• Explain why root finding and interpolation are fundamental numerical tasks
• Define a root of a nonlinear equation
• Apply the intermediate value theorem to bracket roots
• Compute absolute and relative errors
• Explain the meaning of order of convergence

Finishing the course

• 80 knowledge-check questions along the way, so you know the ideas stuck before you move on.
• Watching is free and needs no account. Sign in to save your progress. Pass each lesson's quiz (60%+) to earn the certificate. Each certificate has its own public verification link to share, marked quiz-verified.

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