As you should have already read, deflection is the bend or curve that various materials can have when forces are applied to them. In this assignment, you’ll write a program that does a simple deflection calculation. The formula was provided to you previously.
Your program should take 3 inputs. The input prompts, along with sample input values, are shown below:
Bridge length:
50
Distance to calculate deflection at:
20
Weight:
1000
deflection = 23.4127
The length of the bridge represents the length of the span of the bridge in meters. The second input is distance from one of the ends that you should compute the deflection for. The third is the weight (in Newtons) to calculate the deflection for.
Given the 3 inputs shown in the previous section, You should calculate and print the deflection. Below, the computed deflection is shown for the three inputs.
Bridge length:
50
Distance to calculate deflection at:
20
Weight:
1000
deflection = 23.4127
This PA doesn’t require a lot of code! You should be able to do the whole thing in 5-10 lines of code (not including comments and blank spaces). You just need to get the inputs, plug in all of the values and claculate the deflection, and print it out, rounded to 5 decimal places.
Say that the inputs were 10, 4 and 1000, respectively. Going through the steps:
Bridge length:
30
Distance to calculate deflection at:
12
Weight:
2000
deflection = 10.11429
Bridge length:
100
Distance to calculate deflection at:
17
Weight:
500
deflection = 48.64563
Bridge length:
75
Distance to calculate deflection at:
32
Weight:
200
deflection = 16.2273
Bridge length:
10
Distance to calculate deflection at:
4
Weight:
1000
deflection = 0.1873
Submit deflection.py to gradescope by Feb 2, 2018.
You should do your best to make sure that all of the test cases pass.