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单词 Simpson’s rule
释义
Simpson’s rule

Mathematics
  • A rule to find approximations for the definite integral

    abf(x)dx.

    Divide [a, b] into n equal subintervals of length h by the partition

    a=x0<x1<x2<<xn1<xn=b,

    where xi+1xi = h=(ba)/n, where n is even. Denote f(xi) by fi, and let Pi be the point (xi, fi). Take an arc of the parabola through the points P0, P1, and P2, an arc of a parabola through P2, P3, and P4, similarly, and so on. This is why n is necessarily even. The resulting Simpson’s rule gives

    13h(f0+4f1+2f2+4f3+2f4++2fn2+4fn1+fn)

    as an approximation to the integral. In general, Simpson’s rule is much more accurate than the trapezium rule, and the error is bounded by

    (ba)52880n4maxaxb|f(x)|.

    The rule is named after the English mathematician Thomas Simpson (1710–61), though the rule is due to Newton, as Simpson himself acknowledged.


Statistics
  • A method for finding an approximate value for an integral, which is usually more accurate than the trapezium rule. Suppose we wish to find an approximate value for . The interval axb is divided into an even number, 2n, of sub-intervals, each of length h=(ba)/(2n), at points a=x0, x1, x2,…, x2n−1, x2n=b, where xr=(a +rh) for r=0, 1, 2,…, 2n − 1, 2n. Writing yr=f(xr), the integral is approximated bySimpson’s rule

    Simpson’s rule gives the exact answer when f is a polynomial of order 3 or less. In general, the error in using Simpson’s Rule is approximately proportional to 1/n4, so that if the number of sub-intervals is doubled then the error is reduced by a factor of 16. Simpson’s rule is based on fitting a quadratic graph in each adjacent pair of sub-intervals such that the graph passes through the points (x2r, y2r), (x2r+1, y2r+1) and (x2r+2, y2r+2).


Chemical Engineering
  • A numerical integration method used to obtain the approximate value to a definite integral. It is applied to odd numbers of data and is given by:

    A=S3(F+L+4E+2O)

    where S is the width of the intervals between data, F and L are the first and last ordinate, E is the sum of the even-numbered ordinates, and O is the sum of the remaining odd-numbered ordinates.


Computer
  • The approximation

    xixi+2f(x)dx13h(f(xi)+4f(xi+1)+f(xi+2))
    where h = xi+1xi. It is used in numerical integration.


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