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Chapter 07.03 Simpson’s 1/3 Rule of Integration After reading this chapter, you should be able to derive the formula for Simpson’s 1/3 rule of integration, use Simpson’s 1/3 rule it to solve integrals, develop the formula for multiple-segment Simpson’s 1/3 rule of integration, use multiple-segment Simpson’s 1/3 rule of integration to solve integrals, and derive the true error formula for multiple-segment Simpson’s 1/3 rule. What is integration? Integration is the process of measuring the area under a function plotted on a graph. Why would we want to integrate a function? Among the most common examples are finding the velocity of a body from an acceleration function, and displacement of a body from a velocity function. Throughout many engineering fields, there are (what sometimes seems like) countless applications for integral calculus. You can read about some of these applications in Chapters 07.00A-07.00G. Sometimes, the evaluation of expressions involving these integrals can become daunting, if not indeterminate. For this reason, a wide variety of numerical methods has been developed to simplify the integral. Here, we will discuss Simpson’s 1/3 rule of integral approximation, which improves upon the accuracy of the trapezoidal rule. Here, we will discuss the Simpson’s 1/3 rule of approximating integrals of the form where is called the integrand, lower limit of integration upper limit of integration Simpson’s 1/3 Rule The trapezoidal rule was based on approximating the integrand by a first order polynomial, and then integrating the polynomial over interval of integration. Simpson’s 1/3 rule is an extension of Trapezoidal rule where the integrand is approximated by a second order polynomial. Figure 1 Integration of a function Method 1: Hence where is a second order polynomial given by . Choose and as the three points of the function to evaluate and . Solving the above three eq