Mathematics A-Level
Failure modes
What Failure modes means in Mathematics A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Failure modes
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A starting value near a stationary point, a cycle that never settles, or divergence away from the root.
Topics that use Failure modes
- Numerical methods (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Bisection and interval narrowing
- change of sign
- Cobweb and staircase diagrams
- cobweb diagram
- Concave up
- Convergence
- Convergence and the gradient condition
- divergence
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