Numerical approximation Definition and 22 Threads

I'm trying to design a simple mechanism in CAD and got stuck on this problem. Consider a lever (blue shape) that pivots at one end (blue circle). The other end rests on a piston (pink rectangle). In my application the lever is pushing the piston (the lever pushes through the full travel of a...

Dear Everybody, I need some help understanding how to use pade approximations with a given data points (See the attachment for the data). Here is the basic derivation of pade approximation read the Derivation of Pade Approximate. I am confused on how to find a f(x) to the data or is there a...

Imagine you create a diffuse interface in space and determine which side of the interface you are on by a local scalar value that can be between 0 and 1. We could create a circle, centered in a rectangular ynum-by-xnum grid, with such a diffuse interface with the following MATLAB code: xnum =...

Homework Statement I need calculate the points (##x_i##) and weights (##w_i##) with Gauss Lobatto seven points on the interval [a,b]. With the points and the weights I am going to approximate any integral at this interval.Homework Equations I have found the relevant points and weights at the...

I am very new too Matlab and how it all works but I am having trouble understanding at what axis the numerical integration is occurring from on the graph that I plotted. So I am currently doing an experiment in gamma ray spectroscopy and due to issue with the software we found it hard to...

Hi there. I have a question about the damped pendulum. I am working on an exercise where I have already numerically approximated the solution for a simple pendulum without dampening. Now, the excercise says that I can simply change the code of this simple situation to describe a pendulum with...

I'm working on an assignment where I'm required to numerically find the energy of a delta-potential's bound state. To do this, we've converted the time-independent schrödinger equation to an eigenvalue problem with E the eigen value, ψ the eigen vector and H a matrix as follows: with ##t =...

Homework Statement I don't know if this is the appropriate place to ask this, but I really do need some help. I am doing a homework problem and I don't understand what is being asked. It goes as follows: > Write a MATLAB function to evaluate the trigonometric interpolant ##p_n(x)## for a given...

Homework Statement I am having some trouble understanding the following solved problem: Use two iterations of the Secant method to estimate where ##x^2 -x## has a local minimum. Start with ##x^{(0)} =1##, ##x^{(1)} =1/2.## Answer: Homework Equations Secant iteration: $$x_k = x_{k-1} -...

Homework Statement [/B] use richardson extrapolation to estimate the first derivative y=ln(x), x=5 using steps of 2, 1, 0.5. Four decimal points. obtain true relative error for the last estimate and comment on its value. Homework Equations [/B] deriv ln(x)=1/xThe Attempt at a Solution I know...

I have the following system of equations with variables ##a,m##, and I'm wondering—can this system be solved symbolically/analytically? \begin{align} m &= 100 + \frac{ \left( 200 \frac{\ln{\frac{1}{2}}}{26.8} \right) }{\left(\dfrac{\ln{\frac{1}{2}}}{26.8} + a \right)} \\ \\ 50 &= me^{-a\left(...

I have a second order differential equation of the form (theta is a function of time): \theta ''=F\left(\theta ,\theta '\right) Turning them to two first order equations I get: \begin{cases} \theta '\:=\omega \\ \omega '=F\left(\theta ,\omega \right) \end{cases} And here's the algorithm...

Hi, I am working on TDR (Time Domain Reflectometry). I send a 7GHz bandwidth fast rising edge (14ns) square wave into a coax. I get a return Signal. I have an ADC with 10Msamples/sec. I am using MPLAB IDE for coding the microcontroller. Now I would like to increase the Points on the...

Hi I am new member and I am new to the Signal processing so I hope I could get some help from the members to able to understand the concepts. I have a Signal. I have a 10Msaples/sec ADC. I view the Signal on an Oscilloscope which has 20Gsamples/sec sampling rate. The Point where I am...

So, I ve been trying to add orientation to my model of the flight dynamics of a rocket but I ve been running into a lot of problems. I didn't bother actually doing the math for the moments of inertia and everything because I guess it really doesn't have that much of an effect on the general...

What is the most general method of approximating arbitrary systems of ODEs of 4 variables(x,y,z,t) that fit these conditions? The conditions that are assumed true of the ODEs are: 1) that I require differentials to be explicitly defined (but they can be defined in terms of other...

Hi all, i have a problem to solve that i want maybe to solve with MATLAB o excel. I have a numerical samples and with linear approsimation i have a function, but now i want to use less samples for example only 20 and i want to find the best set of samples to approsimate in the best way the...

Homework Statement This problem will guide you through the steps to obtain a numerical approximation of the eigenvalues, and eigenvectors of A using an example. We will define two sequences of vectors{vk} and {uk} (a) Choose any vector u \in R2 as u0 (b) Once uk has been determined, the...

y' = 3 + t - y, y(0) = 1 A) Find the approximate values of the solution of the given initial value problem at t = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 using the Euler method with h = 0.1. B) Repeat part A with h = 0.05. Compare the results found in A. I did part A correctly, but cannot get the right...

u''(x)=f(x), boundary conditions u(a)=0,u(b)=0. (u(x+h)-2u(x)+u(x-h))/h^2=f(x); maltab code: clear all a=0; b=1; n=10; h=(b-a)/(n+1); x_with_boundary=linspace(a,b,n+2)'; x=x_with_boundary(2:n+1); A=h^(-2).*(diag(ones(1,n-1),-1)+diag(-2.*ones(1,n),0)+diag(ones(1,n-1),1))...

Homework Statement [U][t]=-U+k[U][xx] u(x,0)=U(L,0)=0 u(x,0)sin(pix/L) Write down difference equations for the approximate solution of this problem using the following methods: 1)forward difference 2)backward difference 3)crank nicholson Homework Equations I can do...

Homework Statement There is a fluid flowing over a hot plate. We non-dimensionalized the problem from three partial diff eq's to two ode's. I am modeling I have two coupled differential equations that are a system of initial value problems. I am supposed to numerically integrate the two...