Experiment $1$: MATLAB Tutorial

$(1)$ Review the kinematic model of the bouncing of a ball

$(2)$ Learn to identify measurable parameters in an experiment and see what these parameters tell you about the validity of your model

$(3)$ Understand the effect of inelastic collision by calculating the coefficient of restitution of this system

Procedure:

Part A: Basic matrix operations and data visualization

In this tutorial, you are given a data set from a simulated experiment where a ping$-$pong ball is dropped from a given height and bounces a few time before stopping. This simulated experiment is repeated five times and all the data is recorded in a file $($shown below$).$ In this file, the first column is time. The other five columns represent the position of the ball during each trial. Hint: use the command "load" to import the dataset into the MATLAB workspace.