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MATLAB Basics for Telecom Tech

This document provides an introduction and overview of MATLAB. MATLAB stands for Matrix Laboratory and is a programming environment for technical computing. It allows matrix and vector formulations to be solved quickly. MATLAB features toolboxes that extend its capabilities to specific problem domains like signal processing and control systems. This tutorial then demonstrates basic MATLAB commands for variables, plotting, and plotting multiple graphs on a single figure. It provides examples of defining variables, using functions like cosine and exponential, and plotting commands. It concludes with an example task to find the area of a triangle using MATLAB code.

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MATLAB Basics for Telecom Tech

This document provides an introduction and overview of MATLAB. MATLAB stands for Matrix Laboratory and is a programming environment for technical computing. It allows matrix and vector formulations to be solved quickly. MATLAB features toolboxes that extend its capabilities to specific problem domains like signal processing and control systems. This tutorial then demonstrates basic MATLAB commands for variables, plotting, and plotting multiple graphs on a single figure. It provides examples of defining variables, using functions like cosine and exponential, and plotting commands. It concludes with an example task to find the area of a triangle using MATLAB code.

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Lab Manual Telecommunication Technology

LAB SESSION 1
INTRODUCTION TO MATLAB
WHAT IS MATLAB?

MATLAB stands for MATRIX LABORATORY. MATLAB is a high-performance language for


technical computing. It integrates computation, visualization, and programming in an easy-to-use
environment where problems and solutions are expressed in familiar mathematical notation.
Typical uses include:
- Math and computation
- Algorithm development
- Modeling, simulation, and prototyping
- Data analysis, exploration, and visualization
- Scientific and engineering graphics
- Application development, including graphical user interface building
MATLAB is an interactive system whose basic data element is an array that does not require
dimensioning. This allows you to solve many technical computing problems, especially those
with matrix and vector formulations, in a fraction of the time it would take to write a program in
a scalar non-interactive language such as C or FORTRAN.
MATLAB features a family of application-specific solutions called toolboxes. Toolboxes are
comprehensive collections of MATLAB functions (M-files) that extend the MATLAB
environment to solve particular classes of problems. Areas in which toolboxes are available
include signal processing, control systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic, wavelets, simulation,
and many others.
MATLAB TUTORIAL 1
This tutorial covers basic MATLAB commands that are used in introductory signals and systems
analysis. An easy way to learn MATLAB is to sit down at a computer and follow along with the
examples given in this tutorial and the examples given in the textbook. The topics covered in this
tutorial are:
1. MATLAB Basics
A. Definition of Variables
2. Plotting

1. MATLAB BASICS
MATLAB is started by clicking the mouse on the appropriate icon and is ended by typing exit or
by using the menu option. After each MATLAB command, the "return" or "enter" key must be
depressed.

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A. DEFINITION OF VARIABLES
There are several predefined variables which can be used at any time, in the same manner as
user- defined variables:
i sqrt(-1)
j sqrt(-1)
pi 3.1416...
For example,
y= 2*(1+4*j)
yields: y= 2.0000 + 8.0000i
There are also a number of predefined functions that can be used when defining a variable.
Some common functions that are used in this text are:
abs magnitude of a number (absolute value for real numbers)
angle angle of a complex number, in radians
cos cosine function, assumes argument is in radians
sin sine function, assumes argument is in radians
exp exponential function
For example, with y defined as above,
c = abs(y)
yields: c = 8.2462
c = angle(y)
yields: c = 1.3258
With a=0 as defined previously,
c = cos(a)
yields: c = 1
c = exp(1)
yields: c = 2.7183

2. PLOTTING
Commands covered:
plot
xlabel
ylabel
title

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axis
stem
subplot
The command most often used for plotting is ‘plot’, which creates linear plots of vectors and
matrices; plot(t,y) plots the vector t on the x-axis versus vector y on the y-axis.
To label your axes and give the plot a title, type;
xlabel('time (sec)')
ylabel('step response')
title('My Plot')
For discrete-time signals, use the command ‘stem’ which plots each point with a small open
circle and a straight line. To plot y[k] versus k, type
stem(k,y)
To plot more than one graph on the screen, use the command subplot(mnp) which partitions the
screen into an mxn grid where p determines the position of the particular graph counting the
upper left corner as p=1. For example,
subplot(211),
subplot(212),
This has 2 rows, one column, and one plot in each row.

Task 1:
Find the Area of Triangle by using MATALB
Area=√𝑠(𝑠 − 𝑎)(𝑠 − 𝑏)(𝑠 − 𝑐)
Where s = (a+b+c)/2.

Note: Write the MATLAB code for Task 1 in Comments and Discussion Section.

COMMENTS & DISCUSSION

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