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Module 3
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Working with anonymous function
• An anonymous function is a function of one or more variables that
you create on the command line for subsequent evaluation.
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• Such a function is especially useful if you need to evaluate the
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function several times (with different input) during a single MATLAB
session and you do not care to code it in a function file and save for
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• Such a function is especially useful if you need to evaluate the
function several times (with different input) during a single MATLAB
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session and you do not care to code it in a function file and save for
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• For example, let us say that you have f(x) = x3 - 32x2 + (x - 22)x + 100,
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and you need to evaluate this function at different values of x, plot it
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over certain range of x, or find the zeros of f (x) . For such
computations, you can define f (x) as an anonymous function and
evaluate it at any value(s) of x or use
• The key to anonymous functions is the syntax of its creation:
• fn_name = @(list of input variables) function_expression
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• Here, the key clement is the symbol © that assigns a function handle
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to the defined function.
• A function handle is a name given to a function by which you can call
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it wherever you need it.
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• In the anonymous function definition line, fn_name is the name of
the function or the handle of the function. The syntax ©(list of input
variables) is what tells MATLAB that you are defining an anonymous
function here.
• Anonymous functions are defined on the command line. They live in
the MATLAB workspace and are alive as long as the MATLAB session
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lasts.
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• You can define an anonymous function with any number of input
variable.
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• You must use a vectorized expression (using array operators) for the
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function if you intend to use an array as an input variable.
• You can use anonymous functions as input to other functions where
appropriate.
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Symbolic Computations
• The most important step in carrying out symbolic computation is to
declare the independent variables to be symbolic before you do
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anything with them.
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• Suppose you want to use x and y as symbolic variables. Then, you can
declare them to be symbolic using any of the commands that follow:
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• X= sym(‘x’);
• Y= sym(‘y’);
• Syms x y
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Importing and Exporting Data
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Working with files and Directories
• MATLAB includes several menu-driven features that make file
navigation much easier (compared with the earlier versions) .
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• In the lesson, you will learn commands that pretty much do the same
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thing from the command line. The commands that you will use are
pwd . dir , l s , cd , what , makedir, etc.
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• You can create new directories from within the MATLAB command
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winrlow. You can also copy or move files from one directory to
another with MATLAB commands ( copyf ile , movef ile) . See on-liml
hAlp on pwd , cd , mkdir , rmdir, c opyf ile , movef ile , what , and
which
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