Questions:

(1) Use MATLAB to calculate damping coefficient ξ and determine if the system
underdamped, overdamped, critical damped, or unstable.

Situation 1: z = 2, over damped

Situation 2: z =1, critically damped
Situation 3: z =0.5, underdamped

(2) Use MATLB to generate the bode plots of the systems.

(3) Use MATLAB to simulate and plot the car’s response to driving over a 1m long,
10 c m deep pothole at the speed of 5 m/s.

(4) If the system is underdamped, determine the angular frequency ω of wavy

pavement such that the car chassis has the largest vertical displacement. Assume
the wavy pavement has 5 c m amplitude. Use MATLAB simulation to validate
your answer.
 Omega = 17.000000, Max amplitude = 0.073212
Requirements:

(1) Up to two students per group. One submission per group.

(2) Cover page with project title, names and date
(3) Clearly state that it is your own work and include your MATLAB codes and plots.
Annotate and mark clearly figure numbers and titles.
(4) A brief summary/conclusion of the project
I used the lsim MATLAB function to simulate all situations asked. For
question 1, 2, and 3 I modified the instructor’s code to meet the appropriate
situation and then ran the program. For question 4, I used a for loop to simulate all
possible omega values to achieve a maximum amplitude using the lsim function and
then storing all of those values and using the max function to find the associated
maximum amplitude for the given omega value.