Problem 0: Bifurcations Thursday in class we generated a bifurcation (the first figure on this page): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurcation_diagram Update your solution to chapter 4's last problem so that you can also generate that figure. Problem 1: Random Numbers Make a figure that shows how if you add together groups of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 dice roll samples (i.e. a random integer from 1 to 6) together, a histogram of those sums will gradually approach a gaussian distribution. In the end, your figure should look something like this: http://www.muelaner.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/central-limit-theorem.png Be sure to add X/Y labels and a title to each plot. It will probably help to use some or all of the PLOT, SUBPLOT, RAND, RANDI, RANDN, HIST, HISTC, XLABEL, YLABEL, TITLE functions. Problem 2: Fancier Plotting When at OHSU, you should be able to browse the book "MATLAB For Neuroscientists": http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123745514 Try these two very simple plotting exercises: 2.13, and 2.22. Problem 3: Surf and Meshgrid There is a short tutorial on surface and contour plots: http://mathserver.neu.edu/~braverman/Teaching/Fall2000/surface-contour.pdf Do the first exercise.