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Module 2
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Creating and Plotting simple plots
• The MATLAB commands used are
• plot creates a 2-D line plot,
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• axis changes the aspect ratio of the x-axis and the y-axis,
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• xlabel annotates the x-axis,
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• ylabel annotates the y-axis,
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• title puts a title on the plot, and
• print prints a hard copy of the plot
Plot y = sin x, 0<x<2pi, taking 100 linearly spaced points in the given
interval. Label the axes and put "Plot created by your name" in the title.
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• x=linspace ( 0 , 2*pi , 100) ;
• plot (x , sin(x) )
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• xlabel(‘ time period ‘)
• ylabel ( ‘ amplitude‘)
• title ( ' Plot created by your name’ )
• Line styles: Make the same plot as in Exercise 1, but rather than
displaying the graph as a curve show the unconnected data points. To
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display the data points with small circles, use plot (x , y, 'o').
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• plot (x , sin (x) ,x, sin(x) , ' o’)
• xlabel('x ' )
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• ylabel ( ' s in (x) ’)
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• Space curve: Use the command plot3 (x , y, z) to plot the circular helix
x(t) = sin t, y(t) = cos t, z (t) = t, 0 < t >20
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• t=linspace ( 0 , 20 , 100) ;
• plot3 (sin (t ) , co s (t) ,t)
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Steps to create function file
[Link] 1: Create a file and write commands using the function
keyword.
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[Link] 2: Save the function file with the same name as the
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function. Here I have saved the file with the name solve.m.
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[Link] 3: Use the function in Command Video by providing
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suitable argument/s.
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% function to calculate sin(x)+cos(x) where x is in radians
% Here solve is the name of the function which
% will return x and takes an argument a
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function x = solve(a)
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x = sin(a) + cos(a);
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Working with arrays and matrices
• A 2-D array is a list of numbers arranged in rows and columns.
• If you form an array by writing numbers in rows, all rows must have
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the same number of entries.
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• Same is true for columns. An array with m rows and n columns is
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called an m x n array and it has a total of m · n entries.
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• An element of the array is recognized by its location-its row number
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and column number.
• These row and column identifiers are called indices of the matrix.
Thus A( i, j) refers to a specific element of matrix A located in the ith
row and jth column.
• >>A= [l 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 8]
• A=
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4 5 6
7 8 8
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• >> A( 2,3)
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>> B = A ( 2:3,1 :3)
B=
4 5 6
7 8 8
• >> B= A(2:3, : )
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• B=
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7 8 9
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• >> B(:,2)= []
• B=
4 6
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