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MATLAB Basics: Lesson 2 Overview

The document is a lesson outline on MATLAB basics taught by Dr. Lam A. Cheah. It introduces key MATLAB topics like the environment, variables, arrays, math operations, plotting, flow control, and GUIs. It provides examples of basic math calculations in MATLAB and how variables store results. It also demonstrates how to define arrays, do indexing and slicing, use colons to generate lists, and perform linear algebra operations with matrices.

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MATLAB Basics: Lesson 2 Overview

The document is a lesson outline on MATLAB basics taught by Dr. Lam A. Cheah. It introduces key MATLAB topics like the environment, variables, arrays, math operations, plotting, flow control, and GUIs. It provides examples of basic math calculations in MATLAB and how variables store results. It also demonstrates how to define arrays, do indexing and slicing, use colons to generate lists, and perform linear algebra operations with matrices.

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by Dr Lam A.

Cheah

Topic 1 – MATLAB
Lesson 2 – Basics

1
Outline
 Introduction
 MATLAB Environment
 MATLAB Basics
 M-files (Script vs Function file)
 Plotting
 Flow Control & Loops
 Graphical User Interface (GUI)

2
Outline
 Introduction
 MATLAB Environment
 MATLAB Basics
 M-files (Script vs Function file)
 Plotting
 Flow Control & Loops
 Graphical User Interface (GUI)

3
Variables
 Simple arithmetic computations are the easiest thing to do in MATLAB. For
example addition, multiplication, division, and powers are the standard
symbols.

 For example if you type:


 into the command line and press “enter”.

 First MATLAB prints:


 it also adds a variable called ans to the ‘Workspace.’

 If you look over at the workspace table in the top right of the page it will
have a variable ans with a value -4.0191e+05.

 The variable ans always contains the result of the last computation.

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Variables

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Variables

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Variables – Maths

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Variables – Maths

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Variables – Maths

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Variables

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Variables

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Variables

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Variables

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Arrays

Matrix e.g. 2×2 Vector e.g. 3×1

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Arrays – Row & Column
row

column

row column

column
All rows

All columns
row

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Arrays – Indexing

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Arrays – Indexing

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Arrays

merge or concatenate

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Arrays – Colon

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Arrays – Colon

 What commands would you type to make the following


lists:
 All odd numbers from 1 to 99?
 All numbers divisible by 8 from 0 to 800?
 A backwards list from 100 to 0?
 The list [0, .1, .2, …, 9.8, 9.9, 10]?

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Arrays

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Arrays

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Arrays

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Arrays – Maths

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Arrays – Maths

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Arrays – Maths

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Arrays – Linear Algebra

 The system of equations shown can be written as the product of a


matrix of the coefficients A and a column vector of the unknowns x.

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Arrays – Linear Algebra
 We have a matrix multiplication equation of the form Ax = b, and we
want to solve for the unknowns x. This can be accomplished as
follows:

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Arrays – Linear Algebra

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Arrays – Linear Algebra

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