The Falling Rabbit Problem in Matlab

Dr. Dan Warner
Clemson University
The Shodor Education Foundation
June 1998

First we must build the differential equation function. We'll call it wabbit and save it as a .m file:

Then we construct the list of results obtained from running the program ode23 -- which estimates the solution to our differential equation using the popular numerical technique Runge Kutta 23. Notice that we produce a graph of the output as well: