:Task 1

Write an essay (750-1000 words) entitled.

Computational Mathematical Software as a firstyear study aid. With reference to selected codes
(all of which should be included in the appendix of
your essay) reflect on what mathematical skills you
have explored using software in MP1520 and how
its use has improved your mathematical skills and
your approach to mathematics in other modules
you are studying. You should refer to the material
delivered by the WISER team as well as other
sources of information such as books and online
instructional material to correctly produce your
essay and should include the following sections.
Title, Introduction, Methods, Discussion, Conclusion
and References, your essay should be written in
the third party and the past-tense. Marks will be
awarded for essay structure, correct use of
referencing and cross referencing, writing
.style/grammar as well as coherent content
:Task 2
Produce a set of fully annotated MATLAB script files
and any MuPad/Maxima notebooks of the
highlighted exercises from workshops of the first
term. The comments within your scripts should
demonstrate a thorough understanding of the
MATLAB or MuPad/Maxima commands used. Scripts
should be accompanied by the relevant outputs
required in the workshop exercise. Scripts and the
relevent outputs are to accompany your essay as
.appendices

:Workshops
workshop4
Exercise 3
The maximum deflexion of a wind turbine blade should be no more than
:10% of its span. The formula used to calculate deflexion being
W L3 8EI =
Where is the deflexion in mm and L is the length of the blade, mm.
Given that the maximum load (W) to be applied to the blade is 8500N, E
the elastic modulus of the blade material is 42000 N/mm2 , I is 10 million
mm4 , create a MATLAB function to determine whether the deflexion of the
blade will exceed design parameters or not. Your function should require
Length as an input and return the resulting deflection as an output. As a
secondary output, the function should also display one of two lines
Maximum deflexion is tollerable or Maximum deflexion will be exceeded
depending on the value of delta. Demonstrate your code working for the
;following lengths
4.2m .1
10m .2
25m .3
Calculate the MAXIMUM tolerable blade length (hint: calculate L when .4
/L = 0.1)

You should attempt to do some reading on how the bending of beams can
be calculated and the nature of E and I. You will cover this topic in much
more detail in your Mechanics modules, but for the purpose of this
exercise, you should simply concentrate on using the equation you have
.been presented with

.Exercise 5
An estate agent wishes to find the relationship between the house prices
and size, it is suspected that a linear relationship exists between the
house price (the dependent variable Y) and the house size in square
meters (the independent variable X). Using linear regression, find the
relationship and make a prediction of a house price measuring 200m2. The
following data have been collected by the estate agent. Plot the data, add
a line of best fit and include this output along with your prediction of
:200m2house price

Price= [123 156 140 154 100 110 203 162 160 128] % House Price in k
(Y)
Area= [156 178 189 208 122 172 261 272 158 189] % Area in m sqr (X)

Workshop 5
.Exercise 3
Tossing a coin results in one of two outcomes, heads/tails. Using a
uniformly distributed random number, simulate the tossing of a coin 500
times. Hint: if random number is less than 0.5, assign heads (1), if greater,
assign tails(-1). Plot a histogram of the random number outputs. Calculate
the mean value of the 500 outputs and determine the difference between
.heads and tails. Briefly comment on your results

.Exercise 4
Modify your code from exercise 3 to mimic a large number of people doing
the coin toss experiment. Calculate the accumulated outputs of your
colleagues in the class (25 students) and also the students at Cambridge
University (20,000). Comment on your results in terms of the mean
outcome and the differences between heads and tails

:Read me (Notes)
Simpol language (not professional writing or foreign speakers -1
.level) (UK accent)
.Rfrences in last paper (Harvard references) -2