Answer to Question #279265 in Civil and Environmental Engineering for Glady_07

Question

Simpson's One Third Rule is based on the assumption that the curved boundary consists of parabolic arcs, where each arc is continuous over three adjacent offsets that are equally spaced. Because of this assumption the rule is only applicable when there is

Answer 1

Simpson's One-Third rule is based on the assumption that the curved boundary consists of parabolic arcs, where each arc is continuous over three adjacent offsets that are equally spaced. Because of this assumptions, the rule is only applicable when there is

an odd number of offsets.