Help Numerical integration in matlab

[Pereza0]

Help! Numerical integration in matlab

So (assuming the period in a damped harmonic oscillator is constant, because it is right?)

I have been asked to find T= 2* (integral from x1 to x2 of(1/v_num)dx) where x1 and x2 are two consecutive extrema (?? not sure what he means with this, i supossed he mean a max and a min, I am spanish and my teacher is german, he doesn't speak spanish and all, and his accent makes me hard to understand what he says in english too. He never told us anything about numerical integration)

where x_num is

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x_num =

2.5031
3.2700
3.9152
4.3457
4.7871
5.0556
5.1416
5.1963
5.2314
5.0160
4.8071
4.4870
4.0921
3.6850
3.2715
2.7567
2.3136
1.8144
1.3074
0.8447
0.3929
-0.0224
-0.4132
-0.7527
-1.0654
-1.3259
-1.5381
-1.6895
-1.8126
-1.9019
-1.9227
-1.9228
-1.9328
-1.8343
-1.7121
-1.6082
-1.4477
-1.2862
-1.1291
-0.9619
-0.7710
-0.5915
-0.4040
-0.2357
-0.0740
0.0758
0.2112
0.3394
0.4424
0.5282
0.6087
0.6603
0.6900
0.7287
0.7280
0.7292
0.7063
0.6620
0.6168
0.5745
0.5165
0.4525
0.3928
0.3282
0.2538
0.1862
0.1219
0.0601
0.0010
-0.0522
-0.1013
-0.1441
-0.1818
-0.2099
-0.2347
-0.2515


or the mid point version 75X1
x_num_mid =

2.5031
3.2700
3.9152
4.3457
4.7871
5.0556
5.1416
5.1963
5.2314
5.0160
4.8071
4.4870
4.0921
3.6850
3.2715
2.7567
2.3136
1.8144
1.3074
0.8447
0.3929
-0.0224
-0.4132
-0.7527
-1.0654
-1.3259
-1.5381
-1.6895
-1.8126
-1.9019
-1.9227
-1.9228
-1.9328
-1.8343
-1.7121
-1.6082
-1.4477
-1.2862
-1.1291
-0.9619
-0.7710
-0.5915
-0.4040
-0.2357
-0.0740
0.0758
0.2112
0.3394
0.4424
0.5282
0.6087
0.6603
0.6900
0.7287
0.7280
0.7292
0.7063
0.6620
0.6168
0.5745
0.5165
0.4525
0.3928
0.3282
0.2538
0.1862
0.1219
0.0601
0.0010
-0.0522
-0.1013
-0.1441
-0.1818
-0.2099
-0.2347

and v_num is

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v_num =

9.5859
8.0662
5.3803
5.5174
3.3571
1.0750
0.6840
0.4380
-2.6924
-2.6117
-4.0005
-4.9371
-5.0884
-5.1679
-6.4351
-5.5394
-6.2402
-6.3369
-5.7840
-5.6470
-5.1912
-4.8853
-4.2436
-3.9096
-3.2555
-2.6531
-1.8917
-1.5386
-1.1163
-0.2611
-0.0004
-0.1254
1.2314
1.5276
1.2986
2.0062
2.0181
1.9649
2.0898
2.3855
2.2444
2.3429
2.1041
2.0214
1.8723
1.6927
1.6030
1.2876
1.0721
1.0056
0.6454
0.3718
0.4835
-0.0095
0.0153
-0.2865
-0.5532
-0.5645
-0.5288
-0.7256
-0.8005
-0.7455
-0.8080
-0.9298
-0.8455
-0.8029
-0.7731
-0.7379
-0.6660
-0.6139
-0.5351
-0.4701
-0.3518
-0.3100
-0.2101

Ive done integration in MATLAB before, but never derived from lab data.

The trouble I am having here is that whatever I do, the period I get is about 20-60 secs while looking at x_num and t_num side by side the logical thing would be for it to be 2-5 secs. Been using trapz.

 

[Pereza0]

ok i figured it own alone

Thanks anyway!