How to Stop FOR loop when "answer" is reached, and display answer?
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Simple "throwing a ball" physics problem - someone throws a ball, I want to know what time the ball touches the ground.
I am trying to create a loop that "stops" when the height of the ball reaches 0.
Then I want to display what time the ball reaches height = 0.
Here is what I have sofar:
%When does ball Reach the Surface?
for t = 0:0.01:6.2
if height_earth = 0
disp('The Time when the ball lands is: %4.2f\n', time)
else
disp('The Ball doesnt Touch the Ground')
end
end
I get the display "The Ball doesnt Touch the Ground" 621 times, and have a feeling if "if height_earth = 0" were valid matlab syntax, a would get the entire time array.
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Star Strider
on 2 Dec 2022
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Star Strider
on 2 Dec 2022
Put the break call after the disp call.
Also, the comparison requires a ‘double equal’ —
if height_earth == 0
.
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