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This problem studies the second derivative of the following function in python: f ( x ) = 1 cos x / ( x ^ 2

This problem studies the second derivative of the following function in python:
f(x)=1 cos x/(x^2)
We take x =0.004.
(a) Start by analytically evaluating the second derivative, and plugging in x =0.004.
(b) Let h take on the values 101,102,...,106 and produce a log-log plot of the absolute error in the first central-difference approximation to the second derivative.
(c) Introduce a new set of points to the previous plot, this time evaluating the first
central-difference approximation to the second derivative not of f(x), but of the
analytically rewritten version you arrived at in the previous chapter (recall: you had
used a trigonometric identity which enabled you to avoid the cancellation).(All in python code)

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