Problem Sets

NOTE: If you choose to use matlab or mathematica to multiply out large matrices, please be sure to simplify, probably as you are going along, and at the final answer, so that you are handing in something that makes sense. Three pages of a matrix is not acceptable

Homework 1 (due date: Sep 16, 2010)

HW1 solutions

Homework 2 (due date: Sep 30, 2010)

HW2 solutions

Homework 3 (due date: Oct 7, 2010)

HW3 solutions

Homework 4 (due date: Oct 28, 2010)

HW4 solutions

Homework 5 (due date: Nov 11, 2010)

HW5 solutions

Homework 6 (due date: Nov 30, 2010)

HW6 solutions

Example Matlab code:

f.m -- Pendulum state space equations

Euler method

Midpoint method

Runge-Kutta 4 method

Rock Sim

Catapult Sim

Kill the King