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NewtonRaphsonZeroFinderVI
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OwningPalette:ZerosVIs
Requires:FullDevelopmentSystem
Determinesazeroofa1Dfunctionclosetotwopointswiththehelpofthederivativeofthis
1Dfunction.Thetwovaluesformasearchlimitfortheunknownzeroofthe1Dfunction.
Youmustmanuallyselectthepolymorphicinstancetouse.

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EditionDate:June2011
PartNumber:371361H01
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NewtonRaphsonZeroFinder(Formula)

accuracycontrolstheaccuracyofthezerodetermination.Thedefaultis1.00E8,whichspecifiesthemaximum
deviationofthecalculatedsolutionfromtheactualsolution.
histhedeltavaluetocalculatethederivativeofthegivenformula.Thedefaultis1E8.
startisthestartpointoftheinterval.Thedefaultis0.0.
endistheendpointoftheinterval.Thedefaultis1.0.
formulaisastringrepresentingthefunctionunderinvestigation.Theformulacancontainanynumberofvalid
variables.
zeroisthedeterminedzeroofformula.zeroisagoodapproximationonlyfortheexactvalue.
f(zero)isthefunctionvalueatthepointgivenbyzero.Theanswershouldbeveryclosetozero.
ticksisthetimeeffortforthewholecalculationofthefunctionvaluesinmilliseconds.
errorreturnsanyerrororwarningfromtheVI.YoucanwireerrortotheErrorClusterFromErrorCodeVItoconvert
theerrorcodeorwarningintoanerrorcluster.

NewtonRaphsonZeroFinder(VI)

accuracycontrolstheaccuracyofthezerodetermination.Thedefaultis1.00E8,whichspecifiesthemaximum
deviationofthecalculatedsolutionfromtheactualsolution.
histhedeltavaluetocalculatethederivativeofthegivenformula.Thedefaultis1E8.
startisthestartpointoftheinterval.Thedefaultis0.0.
endistheendpointoftheinterval.Thedefaultis1.0.
f(x)isastrictlytypedreferencetotheVIthatimplementsthe1Dfunction.CreatethisVIbystartingfromtheVI
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templatelocatedinlabview\vi.lib\gmath\zero.llb\ZeroFinderf(x)1D.vit.
datacontainsarbitraryvaluesthatpasstotheVIthatimplementsthefunction.
zeroisthedeterminedzerooff(x).zeroisagoodapproximationforonlytheexactvalue.
f(zero)isthefunctionvalueatthepointgivenbyzero.Theanswershouldbeveryclosetozero.
ticksisthetimeeffortforthewholecalculationofthefunctionvaluesinmilliseconds.
errorreturnsanyerrororwarningfromtheVI.YoucanwireerrortotheErrorClusterFromErrorCodeVItoconvert
theerrorcodeorwarningintoanerrorcluster.

NewtonRaphsonZeroFinderDetails
Letfbethegivenfunction.TheNewtonRaphsonZeroFinderVIusesamethodthatcombinesthesimplemidpointstrategyand
theNewtonstrategy.
Midpointstrategy:

Newtonstrategy:

wherex 1andx 2aregivenguesseswith

f(x 1)f(x 2)<0
ThefollowingillustrationdemonstratestheNewtonstrategy.

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