Error Bound for Simpson's Rule
Channel: Andrew Misseldine
Date: 2020-07-02

In this video, we discuss the error bound of Simpson's rule and show how to compute these.

This is lecture 18 (part 3/4) of the lecture series offered by Dr. Andrew Misseldine for the course Math 1220 - Calculus II at Southern Utah University. A transcript of this lecture can be found at Dr. Misseldine's website or through his Google Drive at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dhLyQygysC0Szd_9EBzT-Cy1EgJ7ycmG/view

This lecture is based upon Section 7.7 of Calculus by James Stewart. Please post any questions you might have below in the comment field and Dr. Misseldine (or other commenters) can answer them for you. Please also subscribe for further updates.

The following links provide online Riemann Sum calculators and may be helpful:
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/7s6pq5ysld (Links to an external site.)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/widgets/view.jsp?id=174a81e7a9ffb5aed0a790093981aaab (Links to an external site.)

https://www.zweigmedia.com/RealWorld/integral/integral.html

https://www.emathhelp.net/calculators/calculus-2/simpsons-rule-calculator/?f=1%2Fx&a=1&b=2&n=10&steps=on
I recommend taking off "Show Steps" after you get a feel for the types of calculations. This is a nice calculator but the ads are very annoying. Beware!