To find displacement using calculus in Matlab, we need to integrate the velocity function to derive the position function. We can use the integral
function in Matlab to perform numerical integration. Here's an example:
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In this example, we first define the velocity function v
as an anonymous function. Then, we set the initial position x0
and time t0
. Next, we define the position function x
as an anonymous function using integral
function to integrate v
with respect to t
from t0
to t
. Finally, we find the displacement at time t = 2
using the position function x
.
Note that we can use numerical differentiation function diff
to derive the velocity function v
from the position function x
, if the latter is given as a discrete data set.
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