Guest Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 So for my internal assessment I am doing Newton's method as it is not in the syllabus and I thought it is hard. However, it is not. It involves only some basic calculus and I am worried that it will put my IA into jeopardy. How on earth can I make the maths in my IA harder? When the newton;s method is not hard? Or is Newton's method acceptable for maths HL IA? Thank you Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrashmaster Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 My HL IA was on Newton's Method, and it did well. Just make sure to incorporate higher level concepts. Do it with a hard calculus problem, for example. 2 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleChopChop Posted October 17, 2015 Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 It's been done to death so there is risk of it showing little personal engagement. However, if you pick the right functions, the mathematics can reach a sufficient level - just watch out for the personal engagement aspect. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emilia1320 Posted October 17, 2015 Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 Newton method itself is indeed rather easy topic, the method is quite straightforward.Hmm, there are a few cases where it doesn't work, like double roots (derivative on denominator will terminate into zero).Maybe you could try to find some alternative iterative method for these cases and title your IA "iterative methods for finding roots of functions of single real variable" Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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