Summary: Calculating Derivatives
Jeffrey Fike
Aerospace Design Lab
Group Meeting
2/5/09
Finite Differences
Taylor Series
First Order Approximation
Second Order Approximation
f xh= f xhf ' x
h2
2
f '' x
h3
6
f '' 'x
f ' x=
f xh- f x
h
Oh

Source: Alonso, Juan J. - Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University

Collections: Engineering