for loop stop condition help

[revolution2000]

hallo, I am new to this forum so I hope this isn't a trivial question. I have written a simple program to calculate the stopping distance of a vehicle and was wondering how I stop the for loop when the function gets to 0 or less. I was thinking maybe I could assign a character to the solution "s" with an if statement. Like s=NEG if s<=0 then using that as the stop condition.
Any help would be appreciated.

#include <iostream.h>
#include <iomanip.h>
float f(float, float, float); //function prototype
int main(){
        float v,u,g,m,h,s[100],T[100];
        int i, n;
        cout << "values of v,u,m,n,h are (n must be < 100) \n";
        cin >> v >> u >> m >> n >> h;
        s[0] = 0;
        T[0] = 0.5*m*v*v;
        for(i = 0; i<n ;i++){//this is the euler loop
                T[i+1] = T[i] + h * f(u,m,g);
                s[i+1] = s[i] + h;
        }
        //set headings for table and then print table
        cout << setw(0) << "s (Distance)" << setw(20) << "T (Kinetic Energy)" << "\n";
        cout.setf(ios :: fixed);
        for(i = 0; i <= n ; i++)
        cout << setprecision(0) << setw(7) << s[i]
             << setprecision(0) << setw(20) << T[i] << endl;
        return 0;
        }
        //this is the function f of the differential equation
        float f(float u, float m, float g){
                g = 9.8;
                return -g*m*u;
        }

[Skizmo]

Welcome to Codeguru. Please use tags for posting code.

Like s=NEG if s<=0 then using that as the stop condition.

Something like this ?

for(i = 0; i<n && s<=0;i++)

Extra tip for your code. Stop using names like x, y, f, s, m. Give your functions and variables decent names.

[Paul McKenzie]

hallo, I am new to this forum so I hope this isn't a trivial question. I have written a simple program

#include <iostream.h>
#include <iomanip.h>

Incorrect. The correct, standard C++ headers are <iostream> and <iomanip>, not <iostream.h> and <iomanip.h>. Your code will not compile for Visual Studio 2003 and above.

If you got this information to use <iostream.h> and <iomanip,h> from a book, get another book (one that teaches C++ as of 1998). If you got this information from a teacher, get another teacher.

A proper C++ "Hello World" program is as follows:

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
   std::cout << "Hello World";
}

Note the things that your code is missing from the "Hello World" example above.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie

[revolution2000]

Thank you for your help firstly. I will use the tags in future. I use a numerical methods in C++ book dated from 1999. I am also restricted to using a Borland C++ edit program and haven't learnt to use anything else yet. Very, very new to this. It's not that easy, making your help greatly appreciated.

So this means I can stick any logic statement (not sure if that's what it is) in the for loop. Would a while loop do something similar?