Numerical Differentiation - University of Utah
my.mech.utah.edu › ~pardyjak › me2040Differentiation Example Suppose we use the Forward Differencing to differentiate: at x = 1 using h = 0.5 Single Application of the forward difference method: Now using the Forwdard Diff. and applying Richardson Extrapolation with 2 step sizes h=1 and h=0.5: Exact: -0.7358 Relative Errors: A(h) ~ 52% A(h/2) ~ 29% Richardson Extrapolation = 5% f ...
Numerical differentiation - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_differentiationThe classical finite-difference approximations for numerical differentiation are ill-conditioned. However, if is a holomorphic function, real-valued on the real line, which can be evaluated at points in the complex plane near , then there are stable methods. For example, the first derivative can be calculated by the complex-step derivative formula: This formula can be obtained by Taylor series expansion: