- What is the form for solving nonlinear equations?
- What are the two categories for nonlinear equations?
- Why are bracketing methods considered robust?
- What are the names of the two methods considered?
- How do they work conceptually?
- Which would you consider more robust?
- What methods were discussed to find initial guesses?
- How do you refine a bracket?
- What is the convergence rate of bisection? Is this good?
- Be able to write code for these methods.
- Note the parts: function call, main character, supporting cast
- function parameters: what do we pass in?
- main character: the primary algorithm
- supporting cast: the convergence check, edge cases, return answer, error checks