ECE-203 Programming for Engineers
Laboratory Experiment Week 3
Name:
In Lab Assignments (Due end of this lab session)
(10 Points) Let p be a bank’s interest rate in percent per year (APR). An initial amount of money
M will mature to the amount of
M
(
1 +
p
100
)n
after n years have passed. Write a Python program that computes how much $1,000 will have
matured to after 5 years with an interest rate of 0.95% APR1
.
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(10 Points) Type up and run this short program intended to evaluate the expression
y = sin2
(x) + cos2
(x)
from math import sin, cos, pi
x = pi/4
1_val = sin^2(x) + cox^2(x)
print 1_VAL
Fix this program by identifying and correcting erroneous statements, syntax errors, etc.
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(10 Points) The following code attempts to solve the constant acceleration example we discussed
in the second lecture
v0 = 3 m/s
t = 1 s
a = 2 m/s**2
d = v0*t + 1/2 a*t**2
print d
Again, fix this program by identifying and correcting erroneous statements, syntax errors, etc.
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1Look online – is this a good interest rate for a savings account in the current market?
1
(10 Points) The following code attempts to verify the equations
(a + b)
2 = a
2 + 2ab + b
2
(a − b)
2 = a
2 − 2ab + b
2
a = 3,3 b = 5,3
a2 = a**2
b2 = b**2
eq1_sum = a2 + 2ab + b2
eq2_sum = a2 - 2ab + b2
eq1_pow = (a + b)**2
eq22pow = (a - b)**2
print ’1st equation: %g = %g’, % (eq1_sum, eq1_pow)
print ’2nd equation: %h = %h’, % (eq2_pow, eq2_pow)
Again, fix this program by identifying and correcting erroneous statements, syntax errors, etc.
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(10 Points) Given the quadratic equation
ax2 + bx + c = 0
the two roots are
x1 =
−b +
√
b
2 − 4ac
2a
, x2 =
−b −
√
b
2 − 4ac
2a
.
Identify the problem with the following program.
import math
a = 7
b = 26
c = 3
q = math.sqrt(b*b - 4*a*c)
x1 = (-b + q)/2a
x2 = (-b - q)/2a
print """
x1 = %g
x2 = %g
""" % (x1, x2)
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