ENGG1811 Week 10 Lab

Instructions
(a) This lab consists of 2 questions.

(b) Time allowed: 50 minutes.

(c) For each question, an associated test file or testing code has been provided to help you to test
your code. It is your responsibility to test your code thoroughly before submission. You may
add additional tests if you wish.

(d) Each test file has multiple test cases. You should aim to pass as many test cases as you can.

(e) Each question requires you to submit a separate Python program file for marking.

(i) You will be provided a submission link for each question.

(f) You are allowed to consult course materials on the course website, as well as the Python and
numpy documentations provided at the Lab 10 page.

(g) No communications are allowed.

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 Question 1
Bush walkers use a simple equation, called Naismith’s Rule, to estimate the amount of time taken in
hours for a walk given its distance d in kilometres, climb h (number of metres of height gained over
all uphill sections) and the average walking speed s in km/hr on flat parts of the walk:

d h
t = +
s 400
For example, a 21km walk with a 600m climb undertaken at an average speed of 3.5 km/hr should
take about 21/3.5 + 600/400 = 6.0 + 1.5 = 7.5 hours.

A walk is classified as Easy if it takes less than 4 hours and also the climb is less than 200m; it
is Hard either if it takes more than 8 hours or the climb is more than 600m; and it is Medium in any
other case.

Your task is to write a Python function whose def line is:

def q1_func(d,h,s):

The three function inputs d, h and s correspond to the symbols d, h and s that were used earlier. The
function is expected to return a string as its output.

You can assume that when we call the function q1_func, the supplied inputs d, h and s are
always numbers of either float or int type. The supplied values of d, h and s can be positive,
zero or negative. For the parameters d and s (for distance and speed) to be valid, both of them must
be strictly positive, i.e. cannot be zero. For the parameter h (for height) to be valid, it must be greater
than or equal zero, i.e. zero is allowed for height.

The function q1_func is expected to do the following:

Step 1 Check if all supplied values are valid. If yes, then proceed to Step 2; otherwise, it should return
the string Invalid and it should not proceed to Step 2.

Step 2 Use the given d, h and s to classify the walk. Depending on the classification, the function
should return one of the strings: Easy, Medium or Hard.

Requirements and testing:

• You must write the function q1_func in a file with the filename q1.py. The submission
system will only accept this filename. A template file q1.py has been provided.

• You can use the file test_q1.py for testing.

• You do not need to submit test_q1.py.

• Make sure that you save your file before submission.

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Question 2
Note that if this question appears in the exam, a differential marking scheme may be used. For a
differential marking scheme, you can only receive the maximum mark if your solution is correct
and it does not use any loops, while a correct solution that uses loops will receive only a fraction
(possibly 70%) of the maximum. However, for this lab, a differential marking scheme will not
be used but you are encouraged to try to solve this problem without using loops.

Your task is to write a Python function q2_func with the following def line:

def q2_func(x,y):

The function inputs x and y are assumed to be 1-dimensional numpy arrays of the same shape.
The function is required to compute and return a numpy array which has the same shape as both x and
y. In the following description, we will refer to the numpy array to be returned by the variable name z.

Let x[i], y[i] and z[i] be the element indexed by i in, respectively, the arrays x, y and z.
The relationship between x[i], y[i] and z[i] is given by the following pseduo-code:

if (absolute value of x[i] > absolute value of y[i])

For examples:

• If x[i] is 4 and y[i] is 3, then z[i] should take on the value of 4 − 3/2 = 2.5.

• If x[i] is 3 and y[i] is -4, then z[i] should take on the value of −4 − 3/2 = −5.5.

Requirements and testing:

• You must write the function q2_func in a file with the filename q2.py. The submission
system will only accept this filename. A template file q2.py has been provided.

• Your function must be able to work with any two 1-dimensional numpy arrays x and y of the
same shape. You can assume that we will only test your function with a pair of arrays of the
same shape.

• You can use the file test_q2.py for testing.

• You do not need to submit test_q2.py.

• Make sure that you save your file before submission.