Question

What is the difference between trapezoidal rule and simpson's rule?

Answer 1

Right about two-thirds of the difference between trapezoidal rule and midpoint rule

Answer 2

thanks. So how do you find Trapezoidal Rule?

Answer 3

bouth are used to aproximate definite integrals. Just the trapezoidal rule takes the values on the boundaries and aproximates with a line. In simpson's aproximation the function uder the integral is aprouched a polynomial which takes the values same a sfunction in the end points and the middle point.

Answer 4

Say you have a function to integrate over a closed interval. Importantly, this function must be defined at the endpoints.

Answer 5

So, like in integrating, you divide it into subintervals...