1. Create a vector of the even whole numbers between 31 and 75.
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2. Let x = [2 5 1 6].
a. Add 16 to each element
b. Add 3 to just the odd-index elements
c. Compute the square root of each element
d. Compute the square of each element
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3. Let x = [3 2 6 8]' and y = [4 1 3 5]' (NB. x and y should be column vectors).
a. Add the sum of the elements in x to y
b. Raise each element of x to the power specified by the corresponding
element in y.
c. Divide each element of y by the corresponding element in x
d. Multiply each element in x by the corresponding element in y, calling
the result "z".
e. Add up the elements in z and assign the result to a variable called "w".
f. Compute x'*y - w and interpret the result
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4. Evaluate the following MATLAB expressions by hand and use MATLAB to check
the answers
a. 2 / 2 * 3
b. 6 - 2 / 5 + 7 ^ 2 - 1
c. 10 / 2 \ 5 - 3 + 2 * 4
d. 3 ^ 2 / 4
e. 3 ^ 2 ^ 2
f. 2 + round(6 / 9 + 3 * 2) / 2 - 3
g. 2 + floor(6 / 9 + 3 * 2) / 2 - 3
h. 2 + ceil(6 / 9 + 3 * 2) / 2 - 3
5. Create a vector x with the elements ...
a. 2, 4, 6, 8, ...
b. 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 0, -2, -4
c. 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, ...
d. 0, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, ...
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6. Create a vector x with the elements,
xn = (-1)n+1/(2n-1)
Add up the elements of the version of this vector that has 100 elements.
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7. Write down the MATLAB expression(s) that will
a. ... compute the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle given
the lengths of the sides (try to do this for a vector of side-length
values).
b. ... compute the length of the third side of a triangle given the
lengths of the other two sides, given the cosine rule
c2 = a2 + b2 - 2(a)(b)cos(t)
where t is the included angle between the given sides.
8. Given a vector, t, of length n, write down the MATLAB expressions
that will correctly compute the following:
a. ln(2 + t + t2)
b. et(1 + cos(3t))
c. cos2(t) + sin2(t)
d. tan-1(t) (this is the inverse tangent function)
e. cot(t)
f. sec2(t) + cot(t) - 1
Test that your solution works for t = 1:0.2:2
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9. Plot the functions x, x3, ex and ex2 over the interval 0 < x < 4 ...
a. on rectangular paper
b. on semilog paper (logarithm on the y-axis)
c. on log-log paper
Be sure to use an appropriate mesh of x values to get a smooth set
of curves.
10. Make a good plot (i.e., a non-choppy plot) of the function
f(x) = sin(1/x)
for 0.01 < x < 0.1. How did you create x so that the plot looked
good?
11. In polar coordinates (r,t), the equation of an ellipse with one of
its foci at the origin is
r(t) = a(1 - e2)/(1 - (e)cos(t))
where a is the size of the semi-major axis (along the x-axis) and
e is the eccentricity. Plot ellipses using this formula, ensuring
that the curves are smooth by selecting an appropriate number of points
in the angular (t) coordinate. Use the command axis equal to set
the proper axis ratio to see the ellipses.
12. Plot the expression (determined in modelling the growth of the US
population)
P(t) = 197,273,000/(1 + e-0.0313(t - 1913.25)
)
where t is the date, in years AD, using t = 1790 to 2000. What
population is predicted in the year 2020?
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