What Is MATLAB?

March 13th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in

MATLAB is a high-performance language for technical computing. It ntegrates computation, visualization, and programming in an easy-to-use nvironment where problems and solutions are expressed in familiar athematical notation. Typical uses include: Read More

Manipulating Matrices

March 13th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in Documents

Matrices and Magic Squares

Matlab MatrisIn MATLAB, a matrix is a rectangular array of numbers. Special meaning is sometimes attached to 1-by-1 matrices, which are scalars, and to matrices with only one row or column, which are vectors. MATLAB has other ways of storing both numeric and nonnumeric data, but in the beginning, it is usually best to think of everything as a matrix. The operations in MATLAB are designed to be as natural as possible. Where other programming languages work with numbers one at a time, MATLAB allows you to work with entire matrices quickly and easily. A good example matrix, used throughout this book, appears in the Renaissance engraving Melancholia I by the German artist and amateur mathematician Albrecht Dürer. Read More

Desktop Tools

March 12th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in Documents

This section provides an introduction to MATLAB’s desktop tools. You can also use MATLAB functions to perform most of the features found in the desktop tools. The tools are: Read More

end

March 6th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in Controls

end Terminate scope of FOR, WHILE, SWITCH, TRY, and IF statements. Without END’s, FOR, WHILE, SWITCH, TRY, and IF wait for further input. Each end is paired with the closest previous unpaired FOR, WHILE, SWITCH, TRY or IF and serves to terminate its scope. Read More

open

March 6th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in Functions

OPEN Open files by extension.
open NAME where NAME must contain a string, does different things
depending on the type of the object named by that string: Read More