Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach (3rd Edition)
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ISBN: 9780133593211
Author: Elizabeth A. Stephan, David R. Bowman, William J. Park, Benjamin L. Sill, Matthew W. Ohland
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 18, Problem 1RQ
- 1. The specific gravity of gold is 19.3. Write a MATLAB program that will ask the user to input the mass of a cube of solid gold in units of kilograms and display the length of a single side of the cube in units of inches. The output should display a sentence like the following one, with the length formatted to two decimal places.
Sample Input/Output
Enter the mass of the cube [kilograms] : 0.4
The length of one side of the cube is 1.08 inches.
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