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ChE 210 Final Exam Saturday, May 14, 2010

Answer the following questions in the space provided. MATLAB syntax will be expected to be correct. Your work must be readable to receive full credit and only one answer per question is allowed. If there is extra work on a page, box the answer you want graded. Allowed MATLAB functions are: trigonometric functions (regular and inverse), sqrt, log functions, exp, abs, rem, length, size, ones, zeros, rounding/truncating functions. If you think I have missed a useful function please ask before you use it. A note about repetition: I expect the proper MATLAB repetition commands to be used for number and condition based repetition.

1. Force vectors are often described using polar coordinates (magnitude and angle); however when several forces act on an object the resultant overall force and direction can best be calculated by calculating the rectangular components of the vectors (Fx and Fy), putting them in vectors and then summing the vectors to get the resultant. Then the resultant can be changed back into polar coordinates. Two tugboats are pulling on a large barge that must go directly down a river. The two tugs pull with different amounts of force in different directions. Write a script that asks the user for the magnitude and direction for each of the two tugs and then calculates the resultant force and direction. The program will print resultant force and direction. Use fprintf statements to print a nicely formatted output. Equations: Polar to Rectangular Rectangular to Polar
F 2 = Fx2 + Fy2 tan = Fy Fx

Fx = F cos Fy = F sin

F is magnitude of a vector. is direction. Fx and Fy are the x and y components of the vector.

2. Write a MATLAB function that accepts two arguments p and x. The first is a vector of polynomial coefficients p and the second is a scalar x. The functions return value is to be the value of the polynomial p evaluated at x. A polynomial has the form

p ( x ) = p1 x n 1 + p2 x n 2 + + pn 1 x + pn
Example: p(x) = 3x5 7x3 + 2x2 + 5x 4 p = [ 3 0 -7 2 5 -4 ] The form of your function is y = polyv( p , x ). The function does not have to check to make sure that p is a vector or that x is scalar.

3. Now that you have written polyv( p , x ) write a second function multipoly( p , x ) that uses polyv( p , x ) to evaluate arguments where x can be any size, scalar, vector (both row and column), or matrix. The p argument is the same as before. The function is to return evaluations of the polynomial for each element in x (scalar in scalar out, matrix in matrix out).

4. When a baseball is thrown from the outfield to home-plate it follows the well known rules for projectile flight.

y = x tan 0

g x 2 + 1.8 2 2v 0 cos 2 0

Assume a ball is thrown to home from center field ( x = 90m ). If it is well thrown, when it arrives at home-plate the value of y will be zero. Assuming the ball is thrown with a velocity v0=25m/sec everything is known except for the throwing angle 0. Since the left-hand side of the equation becomes zero we can use fzero to determine the proper throwing angle. Write a function toss( theta , distance , velocity ) that describes the problem. Note that x and v are included in the function so that we can examine more cases than this specific example. Write the necessary command-line commands ( >> ) that would solve the problem with the given parameters using an anonymous function call and fzero.

5. Basic expressions MATLAB and Excel. Evaluate the following numerical expressions: a. 2+4^2/2

b. 2-12/2*3

c. 8+12/3+1

d. ((2+3)^2)/(8-(2+1))

6. Simple Logicals: Understanding logical expressions is key to using MATLAB if and while constructions. Evaluate the follow logical expressions answering either true or false. Assume a = 20; b = 2; c = 1; d = 2; a. a > b

b. a < b & c < d

c. a == b

d. a | b < c

e. a < d < c

7. A group of students have measured the quantity of water discharged from a tank as a function of time. The data are shown plotted on the following page as a normal plot, a semi-log plot and a log-log plot. What, if anything can you conclude about the type of equation that might be used to represent the data.

8. In MATLAB the use of matrix vetor math can be a big time saver. Evaluate the following expressions:
a. [ 1 , 2 ; 3 , 4 ] * [ 5 , 6 ; 0 1 ]

b. [ 1 , 2 ; 3 , 4 ] .* [ 5 , 6 ; 0 1 ]

c. 2 \ [ 4 , 2 , 1 ]

d. [ 2:3:8 ]