Area Under a Graph (excel)

Nitro_Junkie · 22 Mar 2007 at 14:46

in short how do I do this?

need to work out the area (+ and -) under the graph to get the co-efficient of pressure drag

Nitro_Junkie · 22 Mar 2007 at 14:59

lecturer said something about using mid-ordinate system? so wouldn't be perfectly accurate but give a good idea, just don't know how to do it

Nitro_Junkie · 22 Mar 2007 at 15:14

trapezoid rule will be fine but I cant quite get my head round that tutorial

Nitro_Junkie · 22 Mar 2007 at 17:23

thanks for your help mate, its appreciated

got it working and know roughly what I'm doing now just trying to get it sorted for the specific example