Taylor Expansion for Numerical Integration
Hey,
I'm looking for the error of the Trapezoidal method applied to the integral  \, dx)
The actual value of this integral in
. Applying the trapezoidal method to the integral results for a small step size
results in:
. (I've checked this result and for small h, this is approximately equal to
. (to precision above 5 decimal places in MATLAB))
So now I have to check the error of the method, which in general, for an integral
is
.
So I'm having trouble finding the taylor expansion of
, but i know the coefficent of the h^2 term should be
.
Thanks!!