MATLAB

Matrix Laboratory

Important!

You must include comments in your programs you turn in - otherwise we will have great difficulty knowing what you are thinking and doing. You will have

difficulty knowing what you were doing if you need to reuse the programs.

Command Window- enter commands and data- print results

Graphics Window- display plots and graphs

Edit Window- create and modify m-files

MATLAB’s 3 Windows

Now we have seen Command Window, Graphics Window, and Edit Window

There is another window which is very useful:the Help Window

You can also type help in Command Window

e.g.,

help input

MATLAB’s basic component is a matrixi.e., all variables are treated as matrices

All operations are vectorized (optimized for vector use)

Loops run much slower in MATLAB than in Fortran (not a vector operation)

Scalar, vector, and matrix

Scalar: k = 511 matrix

Matrix:

864297534321

a

m n matrix

m rows (m = 3)n columns (n = 4)

231

c 4321b

14 matrix, or a row vector

Vector:

31 matrix, or a column vector

Variable• may consist up to 31 characters

• starting with a letter and followed by any combination of letters, digits, and underscores (Variable names must start with a letter)

• punctuation marks and spaces should not be included

e.g., CVEN_302, TIME, Time, time, velocity, force_x, force_y

• All numbers are double precision

• Text is stored as arrays of characters

• You don’t have to declare the type of data (defined when running)

• Variables are case sensitive

Data Type

e.g., CVEN_302, TIME, Time, time, velocity, force_x, force_y

Arithmetic operation of scalarsAddition: a+b subtraction: a-bmultiplication: a*b division: a/bexponentiation: a^b= ab

abs(x) : absolute value sqrt(x) : square root = x^(1/2)sin(x) : sine asin(x) : inverse sinesinh(x) : hyperbolic sine asinh(x) : inverse hyperbolic sinelog(x) : natural logarithm log10(x) : common logarithmexp(x) : exponental: ex (e = 2.7183….)

Elementary math functions

» a = 5;» b = 3;» a*bans =

15» d = ans * 3d =

45» e = ans * 3;» ee =

45» a^2ans =

25

» a/bans =

1.6667» format long» a/bans =

1.66666666666667» format short» a/bans =

1.6667

» exp(2)ans =

7.3891» 10^2ans =

100» log(100)ans =

4.6052» log10(100)ans =

2» pians =

3.1416

; - result not displayedformat long - 15 digitsformat short - 5 digitsans - result from previous calculationpi -

Ctrl-c : terminate a running program

2e

100ln

100log

Array Operations

• An array operation is performed element-by-element - Need “.” in front of the operator

B(5);A(5) C(5)B(4);A(4) C(4)B(3);A(3) C(3)B(2);A(2) C(2)B(1);A(1) C(1)

MATLAB: C = A.B;

Arithmetic operation of ArraysAddition: a+b subtraction: a-bmultiplication: a.*b division: a./bexponentiation: a.^b = ab

MATLAB variables and matrix operation

231

c 654b

» b = [4 5 6]b =

4 5 6» c = [1

32]

c =132

» c = [1; 3; 2]c =

132

» d = c'd =

1 3 2

- transpose

; - a new line

» b * cans =

31» b.*dans =

4 15 12» b./dans =

4.0000 1.6667 3.0000» f = [b; d; [3 6 8]]f =

4 5 61 3 23 6 8

231

c 231d

654b

b.*d = [4*1 5*3 6*2]b./d = [4/1 5/3 6/2]

bd[3 6 8]

» f(2,3)ans =

2» size(f)

size - size of a matrix

Matrix Operation (conti.)

497 ; 321 yx

497321 yxz

497

321 ; yxu

s = [1 2 3 4; 5 6 7 8]t = [1 2 3 4....

5 6 7 8]

continue

Colon Operator

Creating new matrices from an existing matrix

C = [1,2,5; -1,0,1; 3,2,-1; 0,1,4]

F = C(:, 2:3) = [2,5; 0,1; 2,-1; 1,4]

E = C(2:3,:) = [-1 0 1; 3 2 -1]

G = C(3:4,1:2) = [3,2; 0,1]

410123101521

C

123101

E

41121052

F

1023

G

all columns

rows 2 to 3

» x = 1:10x =

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10» t = 1 : 2 : 10t =

1 3 5 7 9» k = 5:-1:-3k =

5 4 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 -3

a : step : b gives number from a to b with the specified step between elementsstep = 1 if not specified

What if the step is not easy to calculate, or is an odd number?

y = linspace (a, b, n_pts)

» y = linspace (0, 1, 4)y =

0 0.3333 0.6667 1.0000

2 end points are included in n_pts.

y = linspace (0,1)

a number of 100 for n_pts is assigned.

Some useful special matrices» eye (3)ans =

1 0 00 1 00 0 1

» ones (3)ans =

1 1 11 1 11 1 1

» ones (1,4)ans =

1 1 1 1

» zeros (2,3)ans =

0 0 00 0 0

eye (m,n) eye (n)ones (m,n) ones (n) zeros (m,n) zeros (n)

Plotting

plot (x, y) plot(x1, y1, x2, y2)

plot (x, y, ‘color symbol line style’)

» x = linspace(0, 2*pi);» y = sin (x);» z = cos (x);» plot (x, y)» plot (x, y, x, z)» figure (2)» plot (x, y, 'r o -'); grid on» hold on» plot (x, z, 'b x :')

red, circle, solid

blue, x-mark, dotted

figure or figure (#) : open a figure

try help plotadd grids

try grid off

» xlabel ('x')» ylabel ('y')» title ('sine and cosine')» text (2, 1, 'This is a sine fuction')» axis ([0 2*pi -2 2])» hold off

xlabel (‘ label ‘) ylabel (‘ label ‘)title (‘ title of the plot ‘)text ( x_location, y_location, ‘ text ‘)axis ([ x_min x_max y_min y_max ])

Plotting (continue)

- text string

hold on: hold the plots to avoid overwriting

subplot ( m, n, figure number ) - break the figure window into m by n small figures, and plot the specified figure

Plotting (continue)

» figure» subplot (3, 2, 1)» plot (x, y)» subplot (3, 2, 2)» plot (x, z)» subplot (3, 2, 4)» plot (x, y-z)

1 23 45 6

semilogx (x, y) logarithmic scales for the x axis.

semilogy (x, y) logarithmic scales for the y axis.

loglog (x, y) logarithmic scales for the x and y axes

x = 10.^[-1:0.1:2];y = exp(x);figure(1)semilogy(x,y,':^')

figure(2)loglog(x,y,'-s')grid on

More control on plotting

get(H) get object propertiesset(H,'PropertyName',PropertyValue,...)

set object properties

figure(2)h = loglog(x,y,'-sr')grid on

get(h)set(h, 'LineWidth',2)set(h, 'MarkerFaceColor', [0 0 1])

who list of current variablesclc clear the command windowclf clear the graphical windows clear x clear the variable xclear all clear all variablesclose close the current figureclose all close all figurescd y:\cven302\ change directorydir list all fileswhat list all m-filesCTRL-C Abort

semicolons (;) at the end of line: Calculation results will not be displaced on the command window

Some useful commands

Initializing Variables• Explicitly list the values• reads from a data file• uses the colon “:” operator• reads from the keyboard

Input and output (I/O)a = input (‘ enter a value or string ‘)

- wait for input from the keyboard

load file_name- input an existing data file (ASCII format)

diary file_name- save anything in the Command Window

diary off

save file_name variable(s) -ascii- save the data of the variable(s) to a file in ASCII format

You may need to go to certain directory before loading and/or saving files

M-Files: Scripts and Functions

• You can create and save code in text files using MATLAB Editor/Debugger or other text editors (called m-files since the ending must be .m)

• M-file is an ASCII text file similar to FORTRAN or C source codes ( computer programs)

• A script can be executed by typing the file name, or using the “run” command

Functionsdistinguished from the script that the first line is of the form

function x = function_name (input arguments)

function [x, y] = function_name (input arguments)

A function has to be stored as a stand-alone file ended with “.m”. The name of the function is usually (but not necessary) the same as the name of the file.

Difference between scripts and functionsScripts share variables with the main workspaceFunctions do not

Decision Making: Control Flow

(a) For Loops

(b) While Loops

(c) If-Else Structures

z = 0;for i = 1:10

y(11-i) = i;z = z+i;

end

For Loopsfor x = array

commandsend

» yy =

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1» disp(z)

55

Without this line you will get:Warning: Reference to uninitialized variable z.

disp (x) - display the value of x

Filename: lec2a.m

% Find sum of 1 to b% Comments begin with “%”% cd y:\cven302\clear allsum = 0;b = input('what is the value of b? ')for i = 1 : b

sum = sum + iend

While Loopswhile expression

commandsend

eps = 1;count = 0;while (1+eps) > 1

eps = eps/2;count = count + 1;

endeps = eps*2display(count-1)

Floating point relative accuracy

(is true)

Determining machine epsilon

52 digits in double precision (64 bit)

eps =2.2204e-016

ans =52

If-Else Structuresif expression (is true)

commandsend

if expression 1commands 1

elseif expression 2commands 2

elseif expression 3commands 3::

elsecommands n

end

if expressioncommands 1

elsecommands 2

end

Relational Operators< less than<= less than or equal to> greater than>= greater than or equal to== equal to~= not equal to

Logical Operators& and| or~ not

eps = 1;count = 0;while (1+eps) > 1

eps = eps/2;count = count + 1;if count > 100

breakend

endeps = eps*2display(count)

eps = 1;count = 0;while (1+eps) > 1 & count < 100

eps = eps/2;count = count + 1;

endeps = eps*2display(count)

a = input('what is the value of input data? ')if a > 0

sign = 1;elseif a < 0

sign = -1;else

sign = 0;end

disp(sign)

print - print out current figure

print -djpeg filename - save current figure in jpeg format

print -djpeg# filename - save current figure in jpeg format with # (resolution level) between 0 and 100 (default 75)

print -dtiff filename - save current figure in tiff format

print -dpsc filename - save current figure in color PostScript format

Print figures to image files

See help print for more