# Taylor's inequality problem

• March 28th 2010, 08:16 PM
crymorenoobs
Taylor's inequality problem
Use the Taylor polynomial of degree up to 3 for y = cos x along with Taylor's inequality to estimate (integral from 0 to 1) of cos(x^2) and give a bound on the error that your estimate makes.

I'm not quite sure how to do this.
• March 28th 2010, 09:21 PM
Anonymous1
$\int_0^1 \cos(x^2)\approx\int_0^1 (1-\frac{x^4}{2}) = \int_0^1 1-\int_0^1 \frac{x^4}{2}$

Also, you need to find the remainder term to find the bound on error. You know... $R_n(x)= \frac{f^{n+1}(x)}{n!}$
• March 28th 2010, 09:33 PM
crymorenoobs
Ok thank you, I don't know why the integral threw me off...seems straight forward enough :).
• March 28th 2010, 09:41 PM
crymorenoobs
Incase anyone else is interested in this answer in the future, the x^8 term should not be included (since it is of degree 3 and the x^4 term isn't used). Thanks again for the reply though.
• March 28th 2010, 10:02 PM
Anonymous1
Yes, this is correct. Note that if you want $equality$ to $cos(x^2),$ use the $\infty ^{th}$ order expansion, which is what I implied with $+...$

I've edited the post to show we are finding an $approximation.$