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● Operators: +, -, /, *

● Use semicolon (;) to execute multiple commands in the command window.


● Workspace displays saved variables.
● Up arrow key lets you navigate between previous commands.
● MATLAB variables need to start with a letter and contain only letters, numbers, and underscores (_).
● Use brackets wherever necessary in the command window.
● To save all the variables in the workspace to a MAT-file named filename.mat, use: save filename
● To load variables from a MAT-file, use: load filename
● Use clear to clear the workspace, and clc to clear the command window.
● Built-in functions: pi, sqrt, sin, max, etc.
● Use format long or format short to change the number of displayed decimal places.
● All MATLAB variables are arrays.
● A single number is called a scalar, and is represented by a 1-by-1 array.
● When you separate numbers by using spaces, MATLAB combines the numbers into a row vector,
which is an array with one row and multiple columns. When you separate numbers by using
semicolons, MATLAB creates a column vector. Use a combination of both to create a matrix.
● For creating evenly spaced vectors is to use the colon (:) and specify only the start and end values.
● For using the linspace function: linspace(first, last, number_of_elements)
● If you need a linearly spaced column vector, the transpose operator (') converts a row vector to a
column vector.
● To create a variable named x that is a 5-by-5 matrix of random numbers, use: x = rand(5)
● Similarly, use zeros or ones to create matrices with zeros and ones.
● To determine the size of an existing matrix, use size.
● Use one index to access elements in a vector: x(3) extracts the third element of vector x.
● Change values by assigning new ones to specific indices: x(3) = 1 changes the third element to 1.
● For matrices, use two indices (row, column).
● Extract ranges using a colon: A(:,3) extracts all rows of the third column.
● Use end to extract the last element of a row or column. Use end-1 to extract the second-last.
● Use the colon operator to specify a range of values, like: x = A(1:3,:)
● The .* operator performs element-wise multiplication by multiplying the corresponding elements of
two equally sized arrays.
● Plot two vectors of the same length against each other using plot(x,y)
● Specify the color, line style, and marker of a plot by using different symbols in double quotes as
another input to the plot function, like: plot(x,y,"r--o"). Use LineWidth within plot to change the line
thickness.
● Plot one line on top of another in the same axes by using the hold on command. Use hold off to
return to default.
● Add labels to plots using title, ylabel, xlabel, etc
● To extract a variable from a table, you can use dot notation, like: var = table.VariableName
● Relational operators, such as >, <, ==, and ~= perform comparisons between two values. The outcome
of a comparison for equality or inequality is either 1 (true) or 0 (false).
● Combine logical comparisons by using the logical operators AND (&) and OR (|).
● Use an if statement to execute code only if a condition is true, such as calculating the square root if
x is positive. For multiple conditions, use if-else blocks.
● To repeat commands use a for loop, which iterates over a range of values.

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