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MF1

% Assignment of values
a = 4,A = 6;x = 1;

% complex numbers
x = 2+i*4
% predefined variables
pi
% additional precision
format long
% Now when pi is entered the result is
displayed to 15 significant figures:
pi
% four decimal version
format short

MF2

% One dimensional arrays are


called vectors and two-dimensional
arrays are called matrices
% row vector
a = [1 2 3 4 5]
% column vector
b = [2;4;6;8;10]
% Transpose
b = [2 4 6 8 10]'
% Matrix
A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9]
% a list of all current variables
can be obtained by entering the
who command
who
% Access an individual element of
an array
b(4)
A(2,3)
% matrix of zeros
E = zeros(2,3)
% matrix of ones
u = ones(1,3)

MF3
% colon operator
format short
t = 1:5
t = 1:0.5:3
t = 10:-1:5
A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9];
% the second row of the matrix A can be
selected as in
A(2,:)
% linspace which generates n points
between x1 and x2.
linspace(0,1,6)
% The logspace function generates a row
vector that is logarithmically equally spaced
% between decades 10^x1 and 10^x2.
logspace(-1,2,4)
% character strings. Aside from numbers,
alphanumeric information or character strings
can be represented by
% enclosing the strings within single
quotation marks.
f = 'Miles ';
s = 'Davis';
x = [f s]
% that very long lines can be continued by
placing an ellipsis (three consecutive
% periods) at the end of the line to be
continued.
a = [1 2 3 4 5 ...
6 7 8]
quote = ['Any fool can make a rule,' ...
' and any fool will mind it']

MF4
% mathematical operations
2*pi
% For example, because exponentiation has
higher priority then negation,
% the following result would be obtained.
y = -4 ^ 2
% Parentheses can be used to override the
priorities as in
y = (-4) ^ 2
x=2+4*i; y= 16;
3*x
1/x
x^2
x+y
a = [1 2 3 4 5]
% column vector
b = [2;4;6;8;10]
% The inner product of two vectors (dot
product) can be calculated using the *
operator,
a*b
% and likewise, the outer product
b*a
a = [1 2 3]; b = [4 5 6]';
A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9]
a*A
A*b
A*A
A^2
% square each element of A
A.^2

% USE OF BUILT-IN FUNCTIONS


help log
log(A)
% rounding
E = [-1.6 -1.5 -1.4 1.4 1.5 1.6];
round(E)
% sum function
F = [3 5 4 6 1];
sum(F)
min(F),max(F),mean(F),prod(F),sort(F)
length(F)
MF5
% Graphics
t = (0:2:20);
g = 9.81; m = 68.1; cd = 0.25;
v = sqrt(g*m/cd)*tanh(sqrt(g*cd/m)*t);
plot(t, v)
hold on
plot(t, v, 'o')
% plot(t, v, t, v, 'o')
title('Plot of v versus t')
xlabel('Values of t')
ylabel('Values of v')
grid

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