MATLAB Practice Set 1

MATLAB and Programming Environment

MPhil 2023
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1. Try the calculation operations and built-in-functions:

(a) Arithmetic Operations:

(i) 3+4 (b) 8/2 (c) 8\2 (e) 3∧ 3 (d) 1/2i
(b) Absolute value: abs(-0.5), abs(2+2*j)
Floor value: floor(4.5)
Ceiling value: ceil(4.4), ceil(4.7)
Square root: sqrt(2), sqrt(-2)
Real part: real(2+7j), real(2i)
Imaginary part: imag(5-4i), imag(4)
Signum function: sign(-3.2), sign(3.2), sign(0)
(c) The mathematical quantities ex , ln x and log x are calculated with exp(x),
log(x) and log 10(x) respectively.
Evaluate: e2 , ln eπ/5 , log(105 )

2. Trigonometry: The basic trigonometric functions are sin, cos, tan, cot, sec and
csc. The inverses e.g. arcsin, arctan etc are calculated with a sin, a tan etc. The
same is true for hyperbolic functions. The arguments of these functions must be
in radian. Calculate the following quantities.
π π π
(a) sin , cos , tan
6 4 2
2 π 2 π
(b) sin + cos (Typing sin2 (x) for sin2 x will produce an error. Correct form
6 6
is (sin(x))2 ).
(c) Use: sin( ); tan( ) for some input arguments.
(d) Try to understand the difference between sin( ) and sind( ) using some input
arguments.

3. Type vectors, and try to understand the output:

(a) Enter the vectors: A = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7]. Also enter the elements of A in column
form.

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 (b) Find length(A), max(A), min(A), norm(A), sort(A), std(A), sum(A), prod(A).

4. Create a vector t with 10 elements: 1, 2, · · · , 10. Now compute the following quan-
tities:
t−1 sin t2
x = t sin t, y = , z= 2
t+1 t
5. Type in matrices:

(a) Enter the matrix: A = [2 sqrt(2) 4; 0 1e − 1 3; −2.1 1.732 2]

(b) Find size(A), inv(A), det(A), norm(A)

6. Create a big matrix with submatrices: Enter the matrices.

" # " # " #
2 6 1 2 −5 5
A= ; B= ; C=
3 9 3 4 5 3

and then create a matrix G by putting matrices A, B and C given above, on its
diagonal. (You are not allowed to enter the non-zero numbers explicitly).
 
2 6 0 0 0 0
3 9 0 0 0 0
 
 
 
 0 0 1 2 0 0 
G= 

 0 0 3 4 0 0 

0 −5 5
 
 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 5 3

7. Assume that array C is defined as shown, and determine the contents of the fol-
lowing sub-arrays:  
1 2 3 4
C= 0 −1 −3 7 
 

1.1 −2.1 5 0.1

(a) C(2, :) (b) C(:, end) (c) C(1:2, 2:end) (d) C(6) (e) C(4: end) (f) C(1:2, 2:4)
(g) C([1 3], 2) (h) C([2 2], [3 3]) (i) C([1 3], :) = C([3, 1], :)

8. Determine the contents of array a after the following statements are executed:

(a) >> a = [1 2 3;4 5 6;7 8 9]

>> a([3 1] , :) = a([1 3] , :)
(b) >> a = [1 2 3;4 5 6;7 8 9]
>> a([3 1] , :) = a([2 2] , :)

9. Determine the contents of array a after the following statements are executed.

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 (a) >> a = eye(3 , 3)
>> a(2 , :) = [ ]
(b) >> a = eye(3)
>> b = [4 5 6]
>> a(: , 3) = b0
(c) >> a = eye(3)
>> b = [7 8 9]
>> a(: , 3) = b([3 1 2])

10. Effects of diag command: Type the following commands

• >> B = [ones(3) zeros(3, 2); zeros(2, 3) 4 ∗ eye(2)]
•>> diag(B)0 , diag(B, 1), diag(B, −2)0

11. Application: Write the following system of linear equation 3x + y + z = 3; 2x −

3y −z = −3; x+2y +z = 4 in matrix form. Check whether the system is consistent
or not. If consistent then use MATLAB to find the solution of this system. [Helpful
built-in-functions: rank(A), and rank([A,b]) where A is the coefficient matrix and
[A,b] is the augmented matrix.]

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