Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ib Paper 1 17B c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Yes. The Euler recurrence isWrite , where and . For , the numerical values agree with the exact linear descent. If , the method reaches zero and stays there. If , thenand 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.