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Coefficient of Static friction
The coefficient of static friction between two surfaces is u. What force must be used to move a W lb. crate on a horizontal sur...

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Coefficient of Sliding Friction
A weight of W1 N rests on a horizontal plane. The plane is gradually inclined until at an angle θ = Ao with the horizontal, the ...

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Calculate the acceleration of a crate
What is the acceleration of a crate if two robots apply F1 N and F2 N of force respectively and a frictional force of FR N acts ...

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Coefficient of Kinetic friction
A robot exerts a F1 lb. force horizontally on a W lb. crate across a concrete floor at a constant speed. What is the coefficien...

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Find the force required to support a lever
Students are designing a robot that will lift a block to the equilibrium position for transport to the scoring area. They have d...

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Find the mass of a rod
Determine the mass (in grams) of a rod of length L cm if it is in equilibrium per the diagram. In the diagram L1, L2, L3 are di...

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Calculate compression ratio of engine
Calculate compression ratio of engine given compression volume of cylinder(Vc), piston stroke(s) and valve diameter(d)

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Calculate Engine Power
Calculate Engine Power (P) in kW given the values of Torque(M) in Nm and Engine Speed(n) in rpm

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What gear ratio does the cyclist need?
A cyclist (perhaps including our famed Codysolver the cyclist <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/players/1841757-the...

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Calculate load on arm 1
A robot is designed with a motor directly attached at the pivot point of the lifting arm. The L inch arm has a weight of W1 lbs...

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Mechanical Advantage of a Gear Train
Calculate the mechanical advantage of a gear train. The mechanical advantage of a gear couple is given by MA = T_o/T_i where ...

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Magnitude of Balancing Force
A box weighing W1 pounds is placed where its center of mass is located d1 ft from the fulcrum. A balancing force is placed at th...

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How long do each of the stages of the rocket take to burn?
A space rocket has 3 stages: - stage 1, s1; - stage 2, s2; - stage 3, s3. If s1 burns 3 x as long as s2 which burns ...

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Area Conversion 1

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Sum all integers from 1 to 2^n
Given the number x, y must be the summation of all integers from 1 to 2^x. For instance if x=2 then y must be 1+2+3+4=10.

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Magic is simple (for beginners)
Determine for a magic square of order n, the magic sum m. For example m=15 for a magic square of order 3.

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Make a random, non-repeating vector.
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Number of 1s in a binary string
Find the number of 1s in the given binary string. Example. If the input string is '1100101', the output is 4. If the input stri...

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Return the first and last characters of a character array
Return the first and last character of a string, concatenated together. If there is only one character in the string, the functi...

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Create times-tables
At one time or another, we all had to memorize boring times tables. 5 times 5 is 25. 5 times 6 is 30. 12 times 12 is way more th...

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Getting the indices from a vector
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Determine whether a vector is monotonically increasing
Return true if the elements of the input vector increase monotonically (i.e. each element is larger than the previous). Return f...

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Check if number exists in vector
Return 1 if number a exists in vector b otherwise return 0. a = 3; b = [1,2,4]; Returns 0. a = 3; b = [1,2,3]; Returns 1.

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Swap the first and last columns
Flip the outermost columns of matrix A, so that the first column becomes the last and the last column becomes the first. All oth...

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Swap the input arguments
Write a two-input, two-output function that swaps its two input arguments. For example: [q,r] = swap(5,10) returns q = ...

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Column Removal
Remove the nth column from input matrix A and return the resulting matrix in output B. So if A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6]; ...

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Reverse the vector
Reverse the vector elements. Example: Input x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] Output y = [9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1]

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Length of the hypotenuse
Given short sides of lengths a and b, calculate the length c of the hypotenuse of the right-angled triangle. <<https://i.imgu...

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Triangle Numbers
Triangle numbers are the sums of successive integers. So 6 is a triangle number because 6 = 1 + 2 + 3 which can be displayed ...

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Generate a vector like 1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4
Generate a vector like 1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4 So if n = 3, then return [1 2 2 3 3 3] And if n = 5, then return [1 2 2 3 3 3 4...

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