Abstract: Time and again, systems described by differential equations are so complex that purely analytical solutions of the equations are not very easy to come by. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a collocation method using Laguerre polynomials as basis function to approximate two-point second-order linear boundary value problems with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions in ordinary differential equations. The collocation method developed is implemented in MAPLE 17 in conjunction with MATLAB R2014a through six illustrative examples. Absolute errors are equally estimated. From the result, we observed that the accuracy of the collocation method constructed increases with the use of more terms of the Laguerre polynomials as basis function. Based on the careful observations from the numerical experiment, it may be concluded here that the collocation method developed.......
Key words: Linear Boundary Value Problems, Collocation, Laguerre polynomials.
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