Question: 1. [10 points] The simplest scheme for integrating a one-dimensional function is the trapezoid rule. As you will recall, a one-dimensional integral is just the

 1. [10 points] The simplest scheme for integrating a one-dimensional function

1. [10 points] The simplest scheme for integrating a one-dimensional function is the "trapezoid rule". As you will recall, a one-dimensional integral is just the area under a curve. To estimate the value of a definite integral, we thus estimate the area under the curve. Given a function a(t), the trapezoid rule (i) selects a step dt in the variable t, (ii) computes a(t) at integer multiples of dt(a(0),a(dt),a(2dt),, ), (iii) computes the area in between each pair of time intervals as (a(idt)+a((i1)dt)/2, and (iv) sums up the areas over the domain of integration (say t=0 to t=Ndt ). The accuracy of this scheme depends on the magnitude of dt small is better but also more-costly computationally (more intervals over the domain of integration). Here, we will execute the trapezoidal rule for a simple function and analyze the accuracy (error) relative to the exact solution. The function to integrate is a(t)=a0sin(t)0

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