Breaking a loop and displaying iteration

Hi, I have a simple loop for simulating pressure in a bicycle pump and tire. I have a for loop to simulate the pressure for each stroke of the pump, but I need to display only the values up until the pressure reaches 120 psi. How do I stop the loop once the value reaches this? Is there a way to display how many iterations it took to achieve this value?
Here is my code as of now, (I'm relatively new to Matlab and not very good)
p=14.7;
for i=1:101
p = ((patm*v1+p*vtire)/(v2+vtire))
end
while p <= 120
p = ((patm*v1+p*vtire)/(v2+vtire))
if p>120, break, end
disp(p)
end

Answers (1)

while p <= 120
p = ((patm*v1+p*vtire)/(v2+vtire))
end
disp(p)
You don't need to break, when p>120 it leaves automatically the loop
You will need to initialize p

3 Comments

I tried taking the break function out, but when I ran the script it still outputs all the values. There are 101 simulated strokes and the value of p gets up to around 10,000.
post the entire code to allow testing it
You probably still left that first "for" loop in there. Get rid of that. You also need to define v2.

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