ES100 Lecture Notes

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• 1/25/99 - Projectile Motion

• 2/1/99 - Ideal Gas Law
  vol_temp.txt data file
  idg.m - Ideal Gas Model script m-file
  vdw.m - van der Waals equation function m-file
  idgvdw.m - idg.m with call to vdw.m added

• 2/8/99 - Statistics
  p_data.txt - data file with 19 samples
  p_data38.txt - data file with 38 samples
  stats.m - function to calcualte mean and standard deviation
  histdemo.m - histogram example (script m-file)
  hgramf.m - histogram function
  genx.m - generate theta for p.d.f.
  normpdf.m - function to calculate normal probability density function
  genstat.m - calcualte the mean and std.dev for a sample of launch angles ( uses function range0.m)
  range0.m - projectile motion calculator function
  

• 2/15/99 - Error Analysis and Plotting
  Section 4 Lecture slides
  Section 5 Lecture slides
  data1.txt - generic data file used for histogram
  overlay1.m - script file to produce figure with three series represented by symbols
  overlay2.m - script file to produce figure with three series represented by symbols and lines
  triplot.m - script file to produce figure with three subplots
  histplot.m - script file used to load data file and call hgramf2.m
  hgramf2.m - function to generate histogram subplots
  range0.m - projectile motion function called from overlay
  

• 2/22/99 - Truss Analysis and Linear Algebra
  matalgn.m - linear algebra script file
  buildn.m - function to generate user defined matrices
  linsolve1.m - function to solve linear system of equations using matrix inverse method
  

• 3/1/99 - Underdetermined and Overdetermined Systems and Least Squares
  data1.txt - data file (linear)
  data2.txt - data file (linear)
  data3.txt - data file (linear)
  data4.txt - data file (second order)
  y.m - function that represents the minimization critera for least squares
  least.m - script file to produce linear curve fit via least squares
  least2.m - script file to calculate linear parameters via left division
  

• 3/22/99 - Wing Aerodynamics
  liftdrag.m - script file to calculate and plot lift and drag coefficients
  airden.m - function to calculate air density
  ld1.txt - lift and drag data file
  mmhg2pa.m - function file for pressure unit conversion
  reynolds.m - function to calculate Reynolds Number
  tk.m - function file for temperature unit conversion
  

• 3/29/99 - Forces on Ground Vehicles
  clfit.m - script file to fit linear curve to ld1.txt
  coastd.m - script file to reduce coast down data "cddata"
  errors.m - function called from coastd.m to compute error
  reduce.m - function called from coastd.m to compute m and C_d
  airden.m - function to calculate air density, r
  mmhg2pa.m - function file for pressure unit conversion
  cdtest - coast down edxperiment test parameters
  cddata - coast down data
  gencoast.m - numerical simulation to produce cddata
  tk.m - function to convert temperatures
  ld1.txt - lift and drag data file
  relerrnd.m - MALTAB figure, use associated MAT file, relerrnd.mat
  relerrsd.m - MATLAB figure, use associated MAT file, relerrsd.mat
  

• 4/5/99 - Simulation Part I
  roaddata.txt - Simulation road course data
  

• 4/12/99 - Simulation Part II
  

• 4/19/99 - Simulation Part III
  

• 4/26/99 - No Class

• 5/3/99 - Project Due in CAMP 251(Thacher) or CAMP 287(Whitten)