Question

Population growth under limited conditions can be described using the following differential equation where P is population and time dP kgm. Pmax dt Write a funtion named "PopCalculator" that uses Euler's Method to calculate the population with respect to time Your function should have inputs • Istart (the year in which the calculation begins) • tend (the year in which the calculation ends) • di the time step for your Eulers method) • Pinit (the initial population) • kgm (the maximum possible growth rate of the population) • Pmax (the carrying capacity population of your system) (A row vector of time values) (A row vector of population values) . Your function should have outputs .P Function 1 function [t,p] -PopCalculator (tstart, tend, dt, Pinit, kgn, Pmax) % first line given. You're welcome :) 5 end Code to call your function 1 [t,P] -PopCalculator (0,10,.1,2,.5,10) Code to call your function textarea

Answer 1

Here is the implementation of the "PopCalculator" function in MATLAB that uses Euler's Method to calculate population growth under limited conditions:

function [t, P] = PopCalculator(tstart, tend, dt, Pinit, kgm, Pmax)

% Initialize time and population vectors

t = tstart:dt:tend;

P = zeros(size(t));

P(1) = Pinit;

% Use Euler's Method to calculate population growth

for i = 2:length(t)

dP = kgm*P(i-1)*(1 - P(i-1)/Pmax); % differential equation

P(i) = P(i-1) + dt*dP; % Euler's Method

end

end

The inputs to the function are:

tstart: The year in which the calculation begins

tend: The year in which the calculation ends

dt: The time step for Euler's Method

Pinit: The initial population

kgm: The maximum possible growth rate of the population

Pmax: The carrying capacity population of the system.

The function returns two row vectors: t, which contains time values, and P, which contains population values.

Here's an example of how to call the function with the given input values:

[t, P] = PopCalculator(0, 10, 0.1, 2, 0.5, 10);

This will calculate the population growth from year 0 to year 10, with a time step of 0.1, an initial population of 2, a maximum growth rate of 0.5, and a carrying capacity of 10. The t and P vector will contain the calculated time and population values respectively.

Step-by-step explanation: