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Name: Programming with M-Files: A Rocket Trajectory Analysis Using For Loops
ID: m13277
Language: English (en)
Summary: This is an example of using m-files to solve a simple engineering data analysis problem in which velocity and acceleration are computed from altitude data from a home-built rocket test launch.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: Engineering data analysis, for loop, MathScript, MATLAB, Octave
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)
Authors: Darryl Morrell (morrell@asu.edu)
Copyright Holders: Darryl Morrell (morrell@asu.edu)
Maintainers: Darryl Morrell (morrell@asu.edu)
Version: 1.7 (history)
Created: Jan 27, 2006 5:11 pm US/Central
Revised: Sep 29, 2006 6:10 pm GMT-5

Version History

Version: 1.7 Sep 29, 2006 6:10 pm GMT-5 by Darryl Morrell
Changes: 
Changed Title
Version: 1.6 Aug 22, 2006 10:24 am GMT-5 by Darryl Morrell
Changes: 
Changed MATLAB to m-file
Version: 1.5 Feb 15, 2006 9:36 pm US/Central by Darryl Morrell
Changes: 
Added solutions to Problems 6 and 7.
Version: 1.4 Feb 8, 2006 11:26 pm US/Central by Darryl Morrell
Changes: 
Added solutions to Problems 2-5
Version: 1.3 Feb 2, 2006 11:31 pm US/Central by Darryl Morrell
Changes: 
Added acceleration data analysis
Version: 1.2 Jan 31, 2006 11:51 pm US/Central by Darryl Morrell
Changes: 
Added the solution to Prob 1
Version: 1.1 Jan 28, 2006 1:42 am US/Central by Darryl Morrell
Changes: 
Initial Version

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