Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2023/ib/paper-1/17b/c/solution

Yes. The Euler recurrence is
Write , where and . For , the numerical values agree with the exact linear descent. If , the method reaches zero and stays there. If , then
and the recurrence thereafter alternates between and . The exact solution is then zero, while both numerical values have magnitude at most . Thus, uniformly for ,
This is the explicit Euler method for the sign-decay equation.

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