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Week 13 - Matlab

The document provides an introduction to Matlab, a numerical computing environment and programming language created by The MathWorks, highlighting its capabilities such as matrix manipulation, plotting, and algorithm implementation. It emphasizes the advantages of using Matlab, including its high-level coding, rich data types, and high-quality graphics. The document also showcases various types of graphics that can be created in Matlab, such as line plots, stem plots, mesh plots, surface plots, and contour plots.

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Week 13 - Matlab

The document provides an introduction to Matlab, a numerical computing environment and programming language created by The MathWorks, highlighting its capabilities such as matrix manipulation, plotting, and algorithm implementation. It emphasizes the advantages of using Matlab, including its high-level coding, rich data types, and high-quality graphics. The document also showcases various types of graphics that can be created in Matlab, such as line plots, stem plots, mesh plots, surface plots, and contour plots.

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Introduction to Matlab
Dr Jaylina Rana
Week 13

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• What is Matlab?

• Why use Matlab?

• What is possible in Matlab? Graphic examples

• How Matlab works?


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What is Matlab?
• Numerical computing environment & programming
language.

• Created by The MathWorks, MATLAB allows easy:

▫ Matrix manipulation,
▫ Plotting of functions and data,
▫ Implementation of algorithms,
▫ Creation of user interfaces, and
▫ Interfacing with programs in other languages.
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Why use Matlab?

• Allows quick and easy coding in a very high‐level language.


• Rich data types: Complex number, Three dimensional
matrix, structure, cell array, etc
• Lots of users: economists, mathematicians, engineers, …
• High‐quality graphics and visualization facilities are
available.
• MATLAB M‐files are completely portable across a wide
range of platforms.
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Workspace: consists of the variables you


create during a MATLAB session;

Current Directory browser: shows you where


you are.

Launch Pad: displays all the tools and applications


associated with MATLAB
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What kind of graphics is possible in Matlab?

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x = -2.9:0.2:2.9;
bar(x,exp(-x.*x));
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What kind of graphics is possible in Matlab?


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Line plot:
x=0:0.05:5;y=sin(x.^2);plot(x,y);
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What kind of graphics is possible in Matlab?

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Stem plot:
x = 0:0.1:4;, y = sin(x.^2).*exp(-x);
stem(x,y)
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Mesh plot: z=peaks(25); mesh(z);


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Surface plot:
z=peaks(25);, surf(z);, colormap(jet);
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Contour plot: z=peaks(25); contour(z,16);


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What kind of graphics is possible in Matlab?

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