Newton Raphson Using Microsoft Excel

by Kardi Teknomo

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Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel

Newton Raphson method is one of the most famous numerical methods to find root of equation Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel . The algorithm is iterative using difference equation

Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel

You need to find initial value Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel near to the solution.

To demonstrate the method, we will use MS Excel in two ways to do the iteration.

The first way is using spreadsheet and the second way is using MS Excel iteration.

Download the spreadsheet example of this tutorial here .

Example, we want to find the square root of a number, say Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel . Let us name this number as Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel . Let Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel be the square root we are looking for, then Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel or equivalent to Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel . The first derivative is Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel . To solve this using spreadsheet table, we make a table as shown in the figure below

Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel

We set any initial value say Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel and compute the Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel and Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel . Then, we use Equation 1 to calculate Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel . Copy and paste these formulas to many rows below, then you get the result because Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel is tend to be convergence to a number of 2.6457.

To use MS Excel iteration, first, use Tools-Options: Calculation Tab, check Iteration check box

  1. Type the formulas of Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel , Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel and input x(k) = x(0) as the initial value. The result is shown in the figure below

Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel

2. After that, type the formula of Newton Raphson in C8 = C8-C9/C10

3. Press F9 to recalculate. You get the result as shown in the figure below

Newton Raphson using Microsoft Excel

Note that most of iteration procedures are sensitive to initial condition. For example, if you input the initial condition of -5, you may get negative result as the square root which is incorrect.

Unlike spreadsheet way, the iteration procedure is only work for one time usage only. Next time you want to recalculate, you need to do all the steps above again.

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