University of Buea/ Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Tutorial: Tools and Numerical Methods for Engineering (CEF 352)
Course Instructors: Dr WATI and Dr AZEUFACK
Exercise 1
a) Use Matlab to evaluate
3 9 3 9 11 8 7 1.25
5 ; 43 ; 5 ; 5 3 ; 9
4 5 4 2 3 14 3
b) Find de volume of a sphere of radius 2m
c) Create a Matlab m file to display the results of sin , sin , sin as rational
4 3 2
numbers.
Exercise 2
a) Find the magnitude of the vector A = (-1 7 3 2)
b) Find the magnitude of the vector A= (-1+i 7i 3 -2-2i)
c) Consider the number 1, 2, 3. Enter these as components of column vector and as
components of a row vector
d) Given A= [1; 2;3]; B= [4; 5; 6]; find the array product of the two vectors
e) What command would create a 5 5 matrix with ones on the diagonal and zeros everywhere
else?
8 7 11 2 1 2
f) Consider the two matrices A 6 5 1 , B 1 6 4 and compute their array
0 2 8 2 2 2
product and matrix product
g) Find a solution to the following set of equations:
x 2 y 3z 12
4 x y 2 z 13
9 y 8 z 1
What is the determinant of the coefficient matrix?
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Exercise 3
Complete the table
Number Mantissa-exponent MATLAB form
789.34
1 10 4
4
4e11
Exercise 4
a- Write 3432.6 in exponent-mantissa form and write 100 1010 in normal form
x cos x
b- Construct the function y x sin 2 for values of x from one to three in steps
x 3x 1
0.02.
c- Plot the quadratic x 2 7 x 3 from x equals -3 to 3 in steps of 0.2
Exercise 5
a- Use MATLAB to solve 3 x 2 2 x 7
b- Find the solution of the system:
x 3y 2 y 6
2 x 4 y 3z 8
3 x 6 y 8 z 5
Exercise 6
a- We use MATLAB to solve an equation 2x+3=0. What is the correct function to call and
what is the syntax?
b- We use MATLAB to solve an equation 2x+3=1. What is the correct function to call and
what is the syntax?
c- Find the roots of x 2 5 x 9 0
d- You want to plot a curve as a dashed blue line. The correct command is:
1) Plot(x, y, ‘b-‘)
2) Plot(x, y, ‘b_’)
3) Plot(x, y, ‘b’, ‘-‘)
e- To plot a curve as a red dotted line, what is the correct command?
f- If A is a column vector, we can create the transpose or row vector B by writing:
1) B=transpose(A)
2) B=A’
3) B=t(A)
4) B=trans(A)
g- When writing MATLAB code, to indicate the logical possibility of a NOT EQUAL b in an
If statement you write:
1) a !=b
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2) a.NE.b
3) a<>b
4) a~=b
h- The OR operator in MATLAB code is represented by
1) The .OR. keyword
2) Typing and between variables
3) Typing~between variables
4) The “pipe” character
g- To enter the elements 1 -2 3 7 in a column vector, we type:
1) 1: 2 : 3 : 7
2) 1, 2,3, 7
3) 1; 2;3;7
4) 1 237
h-To compute the square of a vector f of data, write:
1) sqr(f)
2) f . 2
3) f 2
4) Square (f)
i- To implement a for loop which ranges over 1 x 5 in increments of 0.5 the best command is:
1- for i=1, 5, 0.5
2- for i=1:0.5:5
3- for loop i=1, 5, 0.5
4- loop i=1:0.5:5 do
j- A function y e 2 x is defined numerically for some data range x. It can be entered using:
1) y exp x exp x
2) y sqr exp x
3) y exp x . exp x
4) y sqrt exp x
k- To find the largest value in a column vector x, type:
1) max(x)
2) maximum (x)
3) largest (x)
l- To plot a log-log plot, the correct command is:
1) Plot (x, y, ‘log-log’)
2) loglog (x, y)
3) log (x, y)
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4) logplot (x, y)
Exercise 6
1- Find the inverse of the matrix:
1 2
A
2 1
2- By calculating the matrix inverse of the coefficient matrix, solve the system:
x 2y 4
3x 4 y 7
3- Find the rank of the matrix:
1 2 4
3 2 5
1 2 8
4- Find the inverse of the matrix in the previous problem.
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