For this assignment, write a program that will analyze the data from a physics e

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For this assignment, write a program that will analyze the data from a physics experiment.

The data consists of a series of position measurements for a moving object. The position measurements will be entered by the user of the program as they are continually prompted. Each of the position measurements that the user enters will have been recorded at uniform time intervals. This time interval will be entered by the user when the program begins and will be followed by the series of position measurements. Each position should be greater than or equal to the previous position because the object is either moving in one direction or still, but never moving backwards. Therefore a negative position measurement will be used to signal the end of the user's data for the run of the program.

After each of the position measurements has been entered, calculate and display the following:

the average velocity for the time interval

the average acceleration for the time interval

Calculations
Use the following formulas for the calculations:

change of position = current position - previous position

change of velocity = current velocity - previous velocity

average velocity = change of position / time interval

average acceleration = change of velocity / time interval

Notes
The starting position and starting velocity should both be 0.

There should be a loop to validate the position entered by the user. As stated earlier, each position that the user enters must be greater than or equal to the previous position. Each time the user enters an invalid position, an error message that includes the invalid position as well as the previous valid position should be displayed and the user should be given a chance to enter the current position again.

Explanation / Answer

Heya! I used functions, but it isn't necessary, but makes the code cleaner. Hope this is what you have been looking for! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //The physics student trying to be programmers Program :-P //The header file that contains all the code for your input and output needs #include //The library of awesum standard C++ functions using namespace std; //function to calculate the change of position double changePosition(double currentPos, double prevPos) { return (currentPos - prevPos); } //function to calculate the change of velocity double changeVelocity(double currentVel, double prevVel) { return (currentVel - prevVel); } //function to calculate the average Velocity double averageVelocity(double time, double prevPos, double currentPos) { return (changePosition(currentPos, prevPos)/time); } //function to calculate the average acceleration double averageAcceleration (double time, double prevVelocity, double currentVelocity) { return (changeVelocity(currentVelocity, prevVelocity)/time); } //your main function where all the magic happens :-P int main() { //I used doubles, because doubles can hold large fractions double timeInterval; //Variable to store the uniform time interval double prevPos = 0; //variable to store the previous position double curPos = 0; //variable to store the current position double prevVel = 0; //variable to store the previous velocity double curVel = 0; //variable to store the current velocity bool flag = true; //If the position is a negative, flag becomes true and the program will cease to exist :-) //Asking for the time interval, you can change the seconds to minutes, milliseconds etc... cout > timeInterval; cout

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