The tangent plane to the surface is the approximation, so the normal to the tangent plane is given by $\nabla f$, I worked the normal out, so I have a normal vector and a point so this defines a …

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Oct 15, 2023 · You can find a good approximation by looking for an interpolation polynomial. For example, for a good 2nd degree polynomial, you pick three points between 0 and pi^2/4 and …

Jul 17, 2015 · 2) Linear approximation becomes important, if you don't have an explicit formula for the function. For example, it is important in solving nonlinear equations or differential …

2 Contrary to Sanath Devalapurkar's answer, this is not really an instance of Taylor series so much as Taylor series are a generalization of this. There are two parts to linear approximation: …

I know how to do linear approximation with just one variable (take the derivative and such), but with two variables (and later on in the assignment, three variables) I'm a bit lost.

Dec 27, 2020 · thanks for the correction, but I still don't understand why is it allowed to take the product of the linear approximations of the inner functions as any order approximations of the …

Sep 23, 2017 · A linear approximation is a linear function that approximates something. A typical formula for a good linear approximation uses the value of the function at a point along with the …

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Oct 22, 2016 · I know how to take linear approximations with one variable by taking the derivative, but I am a bit lost on how to do this with two variables (partial differentiation I think).