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Tutorial 3 - Functions

This document discusses writing MATLAB functions for various mathematical formulas and geometric shapes. It contains 3 sections: 1) Write a function to calculate y = -0.2x^4 + e^-0.5x x^3 + 7x^2 for a vector input x. 2) Write a function to calculate body fat percentage given mass, height, age, and gender. 3) Create anonymous functions to calculate the volume and surface area of a torus given inner and outer radii, and plot these versus the inner radius.

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Tutorial 3 - Functions

This document discusses writing MATLAB functions for various mathematical formulas and geometric shapes. It contains 3 sections: 1) Write a function to calculate y = -0.2x^4 + e^-0.5x x^3 + 7x^2 for a vector input x. 2) Write a function to calculate body fat percentage given mass, height, age, and gender. 3) Create anonymous functions to calculate the volume and surface area of a torus given inner and outer radii, and plot these versus the inner radius.

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Engineering Software & Applications Tutorials Chapter 3 Functions

1. Write a user user-defined defined MATLAB function for the following math function:

y = 0.2 x 4 + e 0.5 x x3 + 7 x 2
The input to the function is x and the output is y. Write the function such that x can be a vector. a) Use the function to calculate y(-2.5) and y(3) b) Use the function to make a plot of the function y(x) for -3 x 4 2. The body fat percentage (BFP) of a person can be estimated by the formula

BFP = 1.2 BMI + 0.23 Age 10.8 Gender 0.54


m , in which m is the mass in H2

Where BMI is the body mass Index, given by BMI = 10002.5

kilogrammes and H is the height in centimetres, Age is the persons age, and Gender = 1 for a male and 0 for a female. Write a MATLAB user user-defined defined function that calcul calculates ates the body fat percentage. For the function name and arguments use BFP = BodyFat(m, h, age, gen). The input arguments are the mass, height, age, and gender respectively. The output argument is the BFP value. Use the function to calculate the body fat pe percentage rcentage of: a) A 35-years-old, old, 188 cm tall, 99 kg male. b) A 22-years-old, old, 170 cm tall, 61 kg female. 3. A torus is shaped like a doughnut. doughnut. If its inner radius is a and its outer radius is b, its volume and surface area are given by:

1 2 v = 2 (a + b) )(b a ) , A = 2 ( b2 a 2 ) 4

a) Create two anonymous functions that computes V and A from the arguments a and b. b) Suppose that the outer radius is constrained to be 2 cm greater than the inner radius. Write a script file that uses your anonymous functions to plot A and V versus a for 0.25 a 4 cm.

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