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MSE 1062 – COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE Project #01 - Turn in results by 1:59pm, Jan 21, 2008 In this lab session you will gain some experience with modeling and optimization. These are skills that require more than just clicking an icon and fitting a line that is common in software packages today. DELIVERABLES: Each student will turn in 1) A short writeup of the assignment, with short answers and/or discussion for each of the questions. Matlab figures should be pasted into the document. 2) All Matlab scripts and functions as .m files. 1) MATLAB NATIVE PRECISION a) MatLab has lots of constants defined by default when it starts up. Query the value of the constant ‘e’, which can be found using ‘exp(1)’. What does it report as a default value ? b) Now configure MatLab to display full precision (FORMAT LONG). How many significant digits is it using for its value of exp(1), does this agree with the 64-bit floating point discussed in lecture ?. (Hint: there are hidden digits if you use some arithmetic) c) What is the smallest number you can add to 1 ? This is often called ε, ‘epsilon’ or ‘machine epsilon’ and is one measure of the upper limit of precision in all your calculations. Typing ‘eps’ at the command prompt and Matlab will tell you what it thinks ε is. d) Why isn’t ε just equal to the smallest number that we can represent with double precision (approximately 9.0E-323 in MatLab) ? 2) MATLAB MODULAR PROGRAMMING Throughout the semester, we will use MatLab at a very basic level to perform simple numerical calculations, or to make graphs. Although MatLab it is often considered to be best at matrix calculations, we are more concerned with writing functions, which exist in a separate ‘.m file’. We will typically pass several variables to the function, which then operates on them and returns a numeric answer. a) Write a function named AddTwo that takes two numbers as input and returns their sum. b) Write a function AddThree that adds three numbers, using nes