How to find a velocity when you have time and position values in an array?

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I am required to differentiate by calling values from an array. I am also required to use either a for or a while loop.
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James Tursa
James Tursa 2018-2-21
What have you done so far? What specific problems are you having with your code? What is the relationship between velocity and position?
Kelly Harmison
Kelly Harmison 2018-2-21
编辑:Kelly Harmison 2018-2-21
The main idea is to know how to differentiate on Matlab. I have two vectors: time and position. I am supposed to use a loop to call specific values from the position vector and find their slope (velocity).

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Roger Stafford
Roger Stafford 2018-2-21
编辑:Roger Stafford 2018-2-21
Let x and y be row vectors of the same length where x gives successive values of the independent variable and y the corresponding dependent variable values - in this case x values are times and y values distances. It is not necessary that x values be equally-spaced. To get a second order approximation of the derivative at each point, do this:
x1 = x([3,1:end-1]); x2 = x([2:end,end-2]);
y1 = y([3,1:end-1]); y2 = y([2:end,end-2]);
dydx = ((y2-y).*(x-x1).^2+(y-y1).*(x2-x).^2)./((x2-x).*(x-x1).*(x2-x1));
The row vector dydx will give approximate values of the derivative of y with respect to x. This is a vectorized solution - no for loops or while loops are necessary.

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