Second Midterm for my ME 105 - Intorduction to Technical Problem Solving class. This particular MATLAB program utilizes both Simulink and ode45 to simulate a bungee jumping scenario for a hypothetical bungee jumping equipment company. Given the cord's elasticity, average mass of the user, acceleration limit, aerodynamic drag for the jump, and viscous friction of the cord as logistical constraints, I was tasked to design a program that could answer the following questions:
*What is the bungee cord length in your design?
* What are the peak values of acceleration, velocity, and distance based on your design?
*Is the simulation of the peak acceleration higher or lower?
*How close to 2 g’s does your design provides?
*How far does the jumper initially fall before he starts back up?
*How many seconds does he initially fall before he starts back up?
*How high should the company advertise to be the minimum altitude to jump with this new bungee cord to ensure a safety factor of 2?
*At the end of the 500 seconds simulation, what is the final length of the bungee cord?
For the sake of simplicity, all the questions appear answered at the end of the program running in printed statements in the command window while displayed plots of the data in the GUI figure show the jumper's displacement, velocity, and acceleration over time from Simulink data and ode45 data.
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