Plot the volume for a horizontal cylinder

[Star Strider]

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clc
clear
L = 5;
r = 3;
h = [0:.2:r]';
V = ((r^2*acos((r-h)/r)) - (r-h).*sqrt(2*r*h - h.^2))*L;
plot(h,V)
title('Horizontal Cylinder Liquid Volume')
ylabel('Liquid Volume (in^3)')
xlabel('Liquid Depth (in)')

[Star Strider]

Your code appears to do what the assignment requests.

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[Luis Mendez]

how do you pdf your input and output with the Graph

Answer 1

[Bruno Teramoto]

L = 5;
r = 3;
h = [0:.2:r]';
V = ((r^2*acos((r-h)/r)) - (r-h).*sqrt(2*r*h - h.^2))*L;
plot(h,V)
title('Horizontal Cylinder Liquid Volume')
ylabel('Liquid Volume (in^3)')
xlabel('Liquid Depth (in)')

[James Tursa]

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