Matlab
An Introduction to Matlab
Version 2.3
David F. Griffiths
Department of Mathematics The University Dundee DD1 4HN
With additional material by Ulf Carlsson Department of Vehicle Engineering KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Copyright c 1996 by David F. Griffiths. Amended October, 1997, August 2001, September 2005. This introduction may be distributed provided that it is not be altered in any way and that its source is properly and completely specified.
Contents
1 MATLAB 2 Starting Up 2.1 Windows Systems . 2.2 Unix Systems . . . . 2.3 Command Line Help 2.4 Demos . . . . . . . . 3 Matlab as a Calculator 4 Numbers & Formats 5 Variables 5.1 Variable Names . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Suppressing output 7 Built–In Functions 7.1 Trigonometric Functions . . . . . . . 7.2 Other Elementary Functions . . . . . 8 Vectors 8.1 The Colon Notation . . . . 8.2 Extracting Bits of a Vector 8.3 Column Vectors . . . . . . . 8.4 Transposing . . . . . . . . . 9 Keeping a record 10 Plotting Elementary Functions 10.1 Plotting—Titles & Labels . . 10.2 Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.3 Line Styles & Colours . . . . 10.4 Multi–plots . . . . . . . . . . 10.5 Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.6 Hard Copy . . . . . . . . . . 10.7 Subplot . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.8 Zooming . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.9 Formatted text on Plots . . . 10.10Controlling Axes . . . . . . . 11 Keyboard Accelerators 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4
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16 Matrices—Two–Dimensional Arrays 13 16.1 Size of a matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 16.2 Transpose of a matrix . . . . . . . . 14 16.3 Special Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 14 16.4 The Identity Matrix . . . . . . . . . 14 16.5 Diagonal Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 15 16.6 Building Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 15 16.7 Tabulating Functions . . . . . . . . . 15 16.8 Extracting Bits of Matrices . . . . . 16 16.9 Dot product of matrices (.*) . . . . 16
Version 2.3
David F. Griffiths
Department of Mathematics The University Dundee DD1 4HN
With additional material by Ulf Carlsson Department of Vehicle Engineering KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Copyright c 1996 by David F. Griffiths. Amended October, 1997, August 2001, September 2005. This introduction may be distributed provided that it is not be altered in any way and that its source is properly and completely specified.
Contents
1 MATLAB 2 Starting Up 2.1 Windows Systems . 2.2 Unix Systems . . . . 2.3 Command Line Help 2.4 Demos . . . . . . . . 3 Matlab as a Calculator 4 Numbers & Formats 5 Variables 5.1 Variable Names . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Suppressing output 7 Built–In Functions 7.1 Trigonometric Functions . . . . . . . 7.2 Other Elementary Functions . . . . . 8 Vectors 8.1 The Colon Notation . . . . 8.2 Extracting Bits of a Vector 8.3 Column Vectors . . . . . . . 8.4 Transposing . . . . . . . . . 9 Keeping a record 10 Plotting Elementary Functions 10.1 Plotting—Titles & Labels . . 10.2 Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.3 Line Styles & Colours . . . . 10.4 Multi–plots . . . . . . . . . . 10.5 Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.6 Hard Copy . . . . . . . . . . 10.7 Subplot . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.8 Zooming . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.9 Formatted text on Plots . . . 10.10Controlling Axes . . . . . . . 11 Keyboard Accelerators 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4
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16 Matrices—Two–Dimensional Arrays 13 16.1 Size of a matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 16.2 Transpose of a matrix . . . . . . . . 14 16.3 Special Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 14 16.4 The Identity Matrix . . . . . . . . . 14 16.5 Diagonal Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 15 16.6 Building Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 15 16.7 Tabulating Functions . . . . . . . . . 15 16.8 Extracting Bits of Matrices . . . . . 16 16.9 Dot product of matrices (.*) . . . . 16