Slides - School of Engineering - University of Warwick
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Taylor Series Expansion<br />
Taylor Series Expansion<br />
Any continuous differentiable function f(x) can, in the<br />
vicinity <strong>of</strong> x i , be expressed as a Taylor series:<br />
f(x) = f i +∆x<br />
( ) ∂f<br />
+ 1 ( ∂ 2 f<br />
∂x<br />
i<br />
2! ∆x2 ∂x<br />
)i<br />
2 + 1 ( ∂ 3 f<br />
3! ∆x3 ∂x<br />
)i<br />
3<br />
· · · + 1 ( ∂ n f<br />
n! ∆xn ∂x<br />
)i<br />
n + H. (3.3 F&P )<br />
where H means all remaining HIGHER ORDER TERMS.<br />
+<br />
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