Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 iii Paper 68 1 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Use the Gauss collocation coefficient construction. Find the polynomial roots of the shifted Legendre polynomial in , and formThen setThese are explicit polynomial integrals. For example, if , calculate and . The resulting implicit Gauss collocation method has order ; its Gaussian quadrature nodes integrate polynomials through degree exactly. The one-stage example is the implicit midpoint rule, with and . No search over nonlinear Runge-Kutta order conditions systems is needed.