Chapter 3

Solved Problems

Problem 1
>> x=-2:5;
>> y=(2*x.^2-5*x+4).^3./x.^2
y =
1.0e+003 *
2.6620 1.3310 Inf 0.0010 0.0020 0.0381
0.2560 0.9756

Problem 2
>> t=0:8;
>> y=5*sqrt(t)-(t+1).^2/0.5./(t+1)+8
y =
6.0000 9.0000 9.0711 8.6603 8.0000 7.1803
6.2474 5.2288 4.1421

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Problem 3
>> n=1:8;
>> hmax=2*.85.^(2*n)
hmax =
1.4450 1.0440 0.7543 0.5450 0.3937 0.2845
0.2055 0.1485

Problem 4
Script file:
g=9.81; m=.624; Cd = 0.5;
rho = 1.2; r = 0.117;
A = pi*r^2;
t = 0:10;
v = sqrt(2*m*g/rho/A/Cd)*(1-exp(-sqrt(rho*g*Cd*A/2/m)*t))

Command Window:
v =
0 7.8984 12.9328 16.1417 18.1870 19.4907
20.3217 20.8513 21.1889 21.4041 21.5413

Problem 5
5.a
>> u=[14 25 -10]; sqrt(u(1)^2+u(2)^2+u(3)^2)
ans =
30.3480

5.b
>> sqrt(sum([14 25 -10].^2))
ans =
30.3480
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Problem 6
Script file:
g=9.81; q=79; v0=100;
t=0:2:20;
x=v0*cosd(q)*t;
y=v0*sind(q)*t-g*t.^2/2;
r=sqrt(x.^2+y.^2)

Command Window:
r =
0 180.7792 323.3089 427.9925 495.4815 526.8909
524.2756 491.7770 438.6131 386.7074 381.6201

Problem 7
>> u = [4 9 -5]; v = [-3; 6; -7];

7.a
>> u*v
ans =
77

7.b
>> dot(u,v)
ans =
77
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Problem 8
Script file:
x=2:2:10; y =3:3:15;
z=(y./x).^2+(x+y).^((y-x)./x)

Command Window:
z =
4.4861 5.4123 6.1230 6.7221 7.2500

Problem 9
>> h = 0.7; k = 8.85;
>> x=1:5; y=2.1:-.1:1.7; z=2:.5:4;
>> G=(h*x+k*y)./(x+y).^h + exp(h*y./z)./z.^(y./x)
G =
9.2215 7.9378 6.9952 6.2876 5.7379

Problem 10
>> format long
>> x=[1 0.5 0.1 0.01 0.001 0.00001 0.0000001];
>> y = (exp(x)-1)./x
y =
Columns 1 through 5
1.718281828459046 1.297442541400256 1.051709180756477
1.005016708416795 1.000500166708385
Columns 6 through 7
1.000005000006965 1.000000049433680
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Problem 11
>> format long

11.a
>> n=0:1:100;
>> s=(-1).^n./(2*n+1);
>> 4*sum(s)
ans =
3.151493401070991
>> Error=(ans-pi)/pi*100
Error =
0.315150580387468

11.b
>> n=0:1:10000;
>> s=(-1).^n./(2*n+1);
>> 4*sum(s)
ans =
3.141692643590535
>> Error=(ans-pi)/pi*100
Error =
0.003182780575553

11.c
>> n=0:1:1000000;
>> s=(-1).^n./(2*n+1);
>> 4*sum(s)
ans =
3.141593653588775
>> Error=(ans-pi)/pi*100
Error =
3.183095619530639e-005
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Problem 12
Script file:
% HW 3_12 Solution
n = 0:N; % N is specified in the command window
s = 1./(2*n+1)./(2*n+2);
est_val = sum(s)
act_val = log(2)
percent_error = abs(est_val-act_val)/act_val*100

12.a
>> N=50;
>> HW3_12Script
est_val =
0.688269247840578
act_val =
0.693147180559945
percent_error =
0.703736934402188

12.b
>> N=500;
>> HW3_12Script
est_val =
0.692648427566807
act_val =
0.693147180559945
percent_error =
0.071954846982977

12.c
>> N=5000;
>> HW3_12Script
est_val =
0.693097193056947
act_val =
0.693147180559945
percent_error =
0.007211672268245
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Problem 13
13.a
>> K=0.25; L = 50*(1-exp(-K*(2+0.5)))
L =
23.2369

Answer: 23.2 cm

13.b
>> K=0.5; L = 50*(1-exp(-K*(2+0.5)))
L =
35.6748

Answer: 35.7 cm

13.c
>> K=0.75; L = 50*(1-exp(-K*(2+0.5)))
L =
42.3323

Answer: 42.3 cm
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Problem 14
>> A=[5 2 4; 1 7 -3; 6 -10 0];
>> B=[11 5 -3; 0 -12 4; 2 6 1];
>> C=[7 14 1; 10 3 -2; 8 -5 9];

14.a
>> A+B
ans =
16 7 1
1 -5 1
8 -4 1
>> B+A
ans =
16 7 1
1 -5 1
8 -4 1

14.b
>> A+(B+C)
ans =
23 21 2
11 -2 -1
16 -9 10
>> (A+B)+C
ans =
23 21 2
11 -2 -1
16 -9 10

9.c
>> 5*(A+C)
ans =
60 80 25
55 50 -25
70 -75 45
>> 5*A+5*C
ans =
60 80 25
55 50 -25
70 -75 45

9.d
>> A*(B+C)
ans =
150 81 34
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58 -47 -18
8 204 -32
>> A*B+A*C
ans =
150 81 34
58 -47 -18
8 204 -32
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Problem 15
>> A=[5 2 4; 1 7 -3; 6 -10 0];
>> B=[11 5 -3; 0 -12 4; 2 6 1];
>> C=[7 14 1; 10 3 -2; 8 -5 9];

15.a
>> A*B
ans =
63 25 -3
5 -97 22
66 150 -58

>> B*A
ans =
42 87 29
12 -124 36
22 36 -10

Answer: No, A*B does not equal B*A

15.b
>> A*(B*C)
ans =
667 972 -14
-759 -331 397
1498 1664 -756

>> (A*B)*C
ans =
667 972 -14
-759 -331 397
1498 1664 -756

Answer: Yes, A*(B*C) does equal (A*B)*C

15.c

>> (A*B)'
ans =
63 5 66
25 -97 150
-3 22 -58

>> B'*A'
ans =
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63 5 66
25 -97 150
-3 22 -58

Answer: Yes, (A*B)t does equal Bt*At

15.d
EDU" (A+B)'
ans =
16 1 8
7 -5 -4
1 1 1

EDU" A'+B'
ans =
16 1 8
7 -5 -4
1 1 1

Answer: Yes, (A+B)t does equal At+Bt

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Problem 16
Command Window:
>> g=9.81; vA=680; THA=65; vB=780; THB=42;
>> vAx0=vA*cosd(THA); vAy0=vA*sind(THA);
>> vBx0=vB*cosd(THB); vBy0=vB*sind(THB);
>> tAup=vAy0/g
tAup =
62.8226
>> tBup=vBy0/g
tBup =
53.2030
>> % Projectile B will hit the ground first.
>> tf=2*tBup;
>> t=linspace(0,tf,11);
>> xA=vAx0*t;
>> yA=vAy0*t-0.5*g*t.^2;
>> xB=vBx0*t;
>> yB=vBy0*t-0.5*g*t.^2;
>> d=sqrt((xB-xA).^2+(yB-yA).^2);
>> format short e
>> Table=[t' d']
Table =
0 0
1.0641e+001 3.2680e+003
2.1281e+001 6.5361e+003
3.1922e+001 9.8041e+003
4.2562e+001 1.3072e+004
5.3203e+001 1.6340e+004
6.3844e+001 1.9608e+004
7.4484e+001 2.2876e+004
8.5125e+001 2.6144e+004
9.5765e+001 2.9412e+004
1.0641e+002 3.2680e+004
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Problem 17
Script file:
u=0:.05:1;
k=.25;
p=k*u.*(1-u)./(k+u);
pmax05 = max(p)
u=0:.01:1;
p=k*u.*(1-u)./(k+u);
pmax01 = max(p)
E = abs((pmax01-pmax05)/pmax01)*100

Command Window:
>> format long
pmax05 =
0.095454545454545
pmax01 =
0.095491071428571
E =
0.038250669386692
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Problem 18
Command Window:
>> A=[1.5 -2 1 3 .5
3 1 -1 4 -3
2 6 -3 -1 3
5 2 4 -2 6
-3 3 2 5 4]
A =
1.5000 -2.0000 1.0000 3.0000 0.5000
3.0000 1.0000 -1.0000 4.0000 -3.0000
2.0000 6.0000 -3.0000 -1.0000 3.0000
5.0000 2.0000 4.0000 -2.0000 6.0000
-3.0000 3.0000 2.0000 5.0000 4.0000
>> B=[7.5; 16; 78; 71; 54]
B =
7.5000
16.0000
78.0000
71.0000
54.0000
>> Solution=A\B
Solution =
5.0000
7.0000
-2.0000
4.0000
8.0000
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Problem 19
R1

Script file: i1
V1
_
+
V1=38; V2=20; V3=24;
R2
R1=15; R2=18; R3=10; R4=9;
R5=5; R6=14; R7=8; R8=13;
+
A=[-(R1+R2) R2 0 0 0 R8 i5 R7 i2 V2 _
0 -(R3+R4+R7) R4 R3 R7 R3 R4
0 R4 -(R4+R5) R5 0
0 R3 R5 -(R3+R5+R6) R6
R6 i4 R5 i3 V
_
0 R7 0 R6 -(R6+R7+R8)]
+
3

B=[V1; V2; -V3; 0; -V1]

I=A\B
% A table with the value of the current in each resistor
RI=[1 I(1)
2 abs(I(1)-I(2))
3 abs(I(1)-I(4))
4 abs(I(1)-I(3))
5 abs(I(3)-I(4))
6 abs(I(4)-I(5))
7 abs(I(2)-I(5))
8 abs(I(5))]

Command Window:
A =
-33 18 0 0 0
0 -27 9 10 8
0 9 -14 5 0
0 10 5 -29 14
0 8 0 14 -35
B =
38
20
-24
0
-38
I =
0.5956
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3.2031
5.0350
3.5323
3.2308
RI =
1.0000 0.5956
2.0000 2.6075
3.0000 2.9367
4.0000 4.4393
5.0000 1.5027
6.0000 0.3015
7.0000 0.0277
8.0000 3.2308