Introduction to Matlab

By: .Ycel zbek

Outline:

What is Matlab? Matlab Screen Variables, array, matrix, indexing Operators (Arithmetic, relational, logical ) Display Facilities Flow Control Using of M-File Writing User Defined Functions Conclusion

What is Matlab?

Matlab is basically a high level language which has many specialized toolboxes for making things easier for us How high?
Matlab

High Level Languages such as C, Pascal etc.

Assembly

What are we interested in?

Matlab is too broad for our purposes in this course. The features we are going to require is
Matlab
m-files Command Line mat-files

Series of Matlab commands

functions
Input Output capability

Command execution like DOS command window

Data storage/ loading

Matlab Screen

Command Window type commands Current Directory View folders and m-files Workspace View program variables Double click on a variable to see it in the Array Editor Command History view past commands save a whole session using diary

Variables

No need for types. i.e.,

int a; double b; float c;

All variables are created with double precision unless specified and they are matrices.
Example: >>x=5; >>x1=2;

After these statements, the variables are 1x1 matrices with double precision

Array, Matrix

a vector
x =
1 2

x = [1 2 5 1]

a matrix
x =

x = [1 2 3; 5 1 4; 3 2 -1]

1 5 3

2 1 2

3 4 -1
y = x y = 1 2 5 1

transpose

Long Array, Matrix

t =1:10

t =

10

k =2:-0.5:-1
k =

1.5

0.5

-0.5

-1

B
x =
1 5

= [1:4; 5:8]

2 6

3 7

4 8

Generating Vectors from functions

zeros(M,N) MxN matrix of zeros

x = zeros(1,3) x = 0 0 0 x = ones(1,3) x = 1 1 1 x = rand(1,3) x = 0.9501 0.2311 0.6068

ones(M,N)

MxN matrix of ones

rand(M,N)

MxN matrix of uniformly distributed random numbers on (0,1)

Matrix Index

The matrix indices begin from 1 (not 0 (as in C)) The matrix indices must be positive integer

Given:

A(-2), A(0)
Error: ??? Subscript indices must either be real positive integers or logicals. A(4,2) Error: ??? Index exceeds matrix dimensions.

Concatenation of Matrices

x = [1 2], y = [4 5], z=[ 0 0]

A = [ x y]
1 2 4 5

B = [x ; y]
1 2 4 5 C = [x y ;z] Error: ??? Error using ==> vertcat CAT arguments dimensions are not consistent.

Operators (arithmetic)
+ * / ^ addition subtraction multiplication division power complex conjugate transpose

Matrices Operations

Given A and B:

Addition

Subtraction

Product

Transpose

Operators (Element by Element)

.* element-by-element multiplication ./ element-by-element division .^ element-by-element power

The use of . Element Operation

A = [1 2 3; 5 1 4; 3 2 1] A= 1 2 3 5 1 4 3 2 -1 b = x .* y x = A(1,:) x= 1 2 3 y = A(3 ,:) c=x./y d = x .^2

b=
y= 3 4 -1 3 8 -3

c= 0.33 0.5 -3

d=
1 4 9

K= x^2 Erorr: ??? Error using ==> mpower Matrix must be square. B=x*y Erorr: ??? Error using ==> mtimes Inner matrix dimensions must agree.

Basic Task: Plot the function sin(x) between 0x4

Create an x-array of 100 samples between 0 and 4.

>>x=linspace(0,4*pi,100);

Calculate sin(.) of the x-array

1 0.8 0.6

>>y=sin(x);

0.4 0.2 0 -0.2 -0.4 -0.6 -0.8 -1

Plot the y-array

>>plot(y)

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Plot the function e-x/3sin(x) between 0x4

Create an x-array of 100 samples between 0 and 4.

>>x=linspace(0,4*pi,100);

Calculate sin(.) of the x-array

>>y=sin(x);

Calculate e-x/3 of the x-array

>>y1=exp(-x/3);

Multiply the arrays y and y1

>>y2=y*y1;

Plot the function e-x/3sin(x) between 0x4

Multiply the arrays y and y1 correctly

>>y2=y.*y1;

Plot the y2-array

>>plot(y2)
0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 -0.1 -0.2 -0.3 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Display Facilities
0.7 0.6

plot(.)
Example: >>x=linspace(0,4*pi,100); >>y=sin(x); >>plot(y) >>plot(x,y)

0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 -0.1 -0.2 -0.3 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

stem(.)
Example: >>stem(y) >>stem(x,y)

0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 -0.1 -0.2 -0.3 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Display Facilities

title(.)
>>title(This is the sinus function)
This is the sinus function 1 0.8

xlabel(.)
sin(x)

0.6 0.4

>>xlabel(x (secs))

0.2 0 -0.2 -0.4 -0.6

ylabel(.)
>>ylabel(sin(x))

-0.8 -1 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 x (secs) 70 80 90 100

Operators (relational, logical)

== Equal to ~= Not equal to < Strictly smaller > Strictly greater <= Smaller than or equal to >= Greater than equal to & And operator | Or operator

Flow Control

if for while break .

Control Structures

If Statement Syntax

Some Dummy Examples

if ((a>3) & (b==5)) Some Matlab Commands; end
if (a<3) Some Matlab Commands; elseif (b~=5) Some Matlab Commands; end if (a<3) Some Matlab Commands; else Some Matlab Commands; end

if (Condition_1) Matlab Commands elseif (Condition_2) Matlab Commands elseif (Condition_3) Matlab Commands else Matlab Commands end

Control Structures
Some Dummy Examples

For loop syntax

for i=1:100 Some Matlab Commands; end for j=1:3:200 Some Matlab Commands; end for m=13:-0.2:-21 Some Matlab Commands; end for k=[0.1 0.3 -13 12 7 -9.3] Some Matlab Commands; end

for i=Index_Array Matlab Commands end

Control Structures

While Loop Syntax

Dummy Example
while ((a>3) & (b==5)) Some Matlab Commands; end

while (condition) Matlab Commands end

Use of M-File
Click to create a new M-File

Extension .m A text file containing script or function or program to run

Use of M-File

Save file as Denem430.m

If you include ; at the end of each statement, result will not be shown immediately

Writing User Defined Functions

Functions are m-files which can be executed by specifying some inputs and supply some desired outputs. The code telling the Matlab that an m-file is actually a function is
function out1=functionname(in1) function out1=functionname(in1,in2,in3) function [out1,out2]=functionname(in1,in2)

You should write this command at the beginning of the m-file and you should save the m-file with a file name same as the function name

Writing User Defined Functions

Examples Write a function : out=squarer (A, ind) Which takes the square of the input matrix if the input indicator is equal to 1 And takes the element by element square of the input matrix if the input indicator is equal to 2
Same Name

Writing User Defined Functions

Another function which takes an input array and returns the sum and product of its elements as outputs

The function sumprod(.) can be called from command window or an m-file as

Notes:

% is the neglect sign for Matlab (equaivalent of // in C). Anything after it on the same line is neglected by Matlab compiler. Sometimes slowing down the execution is done deliberately for observation purposes. You can use the command pause for this purpose
pause %wait until any key pause(3) %wait 3 seconds

Useful Commands

The two commands used most by Matlab users are

>>help functionname

>>lookfor keyword

Questions

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Thank You