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Determine if a four bar mechanism is of Grashof type
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Elastic Collision 001: 1-D
Elastic Collision of two particles. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic_collision wiki Elastic Collision> Solve Conservat...

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Distance of the centroids of the balls
Given *n* balls of radius *r* and the vector *p (nx3)* with all position *(x,y,z)* of the balls, return the symmetric matrix *A ...

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How Far Can You Throw Something?
As you probably learned in your high school physics class, throwing an object at a 45 degree angle will give you the maximum ran...

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Calculate the height of an object dropped from the sky
Assume that an object is dropped from 1000 meters above the surface of the earth at time t=0. The object is dropped such that t...

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center of mass
R is a given matrix with size [n,2]. R(i,:) is interpreted as the 2D-position of a mass point with mass i. Calculate the center ...

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Center of mass
Given a matrix M(m,n), where m is the number of vertices of the geometrical element and n is 2 or 3 (2D-plane figure or 3D-solid...

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Bernoulli's Equation
Bernoulli's equation states that for an incompressible fluid the following summation is constant across the flow: v^2/2 + g*z + ...

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Right and wrong
Given a vector of lengths [a b c], determines whether a triangle with those sides lengths is a right triangle: <http://en.wikipe...

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jogging?
Imagine x-y coordinate system and you are at the origin and your partner is on the x-axis at some small distance (d) away from y...

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Kepler's Equation
Solve <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler's_equation Kepler's Equation>. Note that the solution is rounded down to 5 decima...

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Energy of an object
Calculate the total mechanical energy of an object. Total Energy= Potential energy + Kinetic energy P.E.=m*g*h K.E.=1/2...

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Project Euler: Problem 1, Multiples of 3 and 5
If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23...

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Pattern matching
Given a matrix, m-by-n, find all the rows that have the same "increase, decrease, or stay same" pattern going across the columns...

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Scrabble Scores
Given a word, determine its score in <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble Scrabble>. The input string will always be provi...

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Summing Digits within Text
Given a string with text and digits, add all the numbers together. Examples: Input str = '4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a...

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Tic Tac Toe FTW
Given a tic tac toe board: * 1 represents X * 0 represents empty. * -1 represents O It is X's move. If there is an imme...

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Free passes for everyone!
_Simply return the name of the coolest numerical computation software ever_ *Extra reward* (get a _freepass_): Once a mont...

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De-dupe
Remove all the redundant elements in a vector, but keep the first occurrence of each value in its original location. So if a =...

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The Goldbach Conjecture
The <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach's_conjecture Goldbach conjecture> asserts that every even integer greater than 2 can ...

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Remove all the consonants
Remove all the consonants in the given phrase. Example: Input s1 = 'Jack and Jill went up the hill'; Output s2 is 'a ...

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Pascal's Triangle
Given an integer n >= 0, generate the length n+1 row vector representing the n-th row of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascals_t...

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Pangrams!
A pangram, or holoalphabetic sentence, is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once. Example: Input s ...

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Nearest Numbers
Given a row vector of numbers, find the indices of the two nearest numbers. Examples: [index1 index2] = nearestNumbers([2 5 3...

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Find the longest sequence of 1's in a binary sequence.
Given a string such as s = '011110010000000100010111' find the length of the longest string of consecutive 1's. In this examp...

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Return the largest number that is adjacent to a zero
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Simple equation: Annual salary
Given an hourly wage, compute an annual salary by multiplying the wage times 40 and times 50, because salary = wage x 40 hours/w...

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Which values occur exactly three times?
Return a list of all values (sorted smallest to largest) that appear exactly three times in the input vector x. So if x = [1 2...

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Check if sorted
Check if sorted. Example: Input x = [1 2 0] Output y is 0

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Remove the vowels
Remove all the vowels in the given phrase. Example: Input s1 = 'Jack and Jill went up the hill' Output s2 is 'Jck nd Jll wn...

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