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I suppose this is a lot to ask in one post, but I have made a start on this. I will run through the sequence of events and describe the formulas I have, or have identified so far. The process begins with a hammer striking a valve to open the seal. This can be modeled as a collision over...

I am writing a MATLAB script that generates a dynamic simulation of a piston being driven by compressed air. My starting values for pressure and volume are as follows: P0 = 14000000; %nm-2 or 140 Bar V0 = 0.005; %m3 or 500cc The simulation needs to be quite detailed and must take into account...