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Name____________________


Problem 1. Consider the bungee jumper model F =F
D
+F
U
, where F is the net force,
i.e. F =ma , F
D
=mg is the force of gravity and F
U
=cv is the resistant of the air, where
m is the mass of the jumper in kg, v is the velocity of the jumper in m/s and c is a first
order drug coefficient.

a) Assuming that m =50 kg, g =10 m/s
2
and c =10 kg/s, solve the initial value
problem:
1
10
5
dv
v
dt
=

with
(0) 45. v =















b) Using the Eulers Method rewrite the differential equation from part a):












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Problem 2.
a) Write a MATLAB code that solves the system
1 2
1 2
4 8 24
6 34
x x
x x
=
+ =
graphically.







b) Write a MATLAB code that solves the system by Cramers rule:
1 2
1 2
4 8 24
6 34
x x
x x
=
+ =









Problem 3.
a) What are the dimensions of the variable V and what are its values after the
following MATLAB code is executed:

n=input('dimension of V');
V=ones(n); s=floor(n/2);
for i=1:n
for j=1:s
V(i,2*j)=i+j;
end
end

b) Find the error in the code bellow:

x=[1 2 3 4 5];
fx=@(x) 3x^2 +1;
y=fx(x);
plot(x, y, o), grid;


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Problem 4. Write a M-File that computes e
x
by using the Taylor polynomial
approximation:
2
1
1! 2! !
n
x
x x x
e
n
= + + + + +
.
The program needs to request as an input the value of x and the program needs to
stop when the relative error in the approximation is below 1%.





















Problem 5. Write a short M-File that approximates the roots of the polynomial
2
( ) 4 3 f x x x = +
using incremental search on the interval [0, 3] with an
incremental step of 0.01.












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Problem 5. The following data is given:

x 1 2 3 4 5 6
y 6 12 24 46 94 191

After plotting it is clear that the data follows an exponential pattern: y =c
.
a
x


a) Plot the data to confirm the observation:
[Use appropriate scale]












b)Show the work that can linearize the model and then apply it to the data.





What would the linearized data be:

X
Y

c) If after applying linear fit let the slope of the calculated line be m and the y-intercept
be b. How can we use m and b to calculate c and a for the original model.