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Summary of MATLAB Onramp

This document provides a summary of basic MATLAB syntax and functions. It introduces how to create and manipulate variables, arrays, matrices, and even/linearly spaced vectors. It also covers indexing, logical operations, plotting, tables, programming flow control using if/else statements and for loops, and how to access documentation. Key functions described include save, load, clear, clc, format, rand, zeros, linspace, size, max, randi, plot, hold, title, and doc.

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Summary of MATLAB Onramp

This document provides a summary of basic MATLAB syntax and functions. It introduces how to create and manipulate variables, arrays, matrices, and even/linearly spaced vectors. It also covers indexing, logical operations, plotting, tables, programming flow control using if/else statements and for loops, and how to access documentation. Key functions described include save, load, clear, clc, format, rand, zeros, linspace, size, max, randi, plot, hold, title, and doc.

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Summary of MATLAB Onramp

Basic syntax
Example Description
Create variables with the equal sign (=).
x = pi The left-side (x) is the variable name containing the value on the right-side
(pi).
y = sin(-5) You can provide inputs to a function using parentheses.

Desktop management
Function Example Description
save save data.mat Save your current workspace to a MAT-file.
load load data.mat Load the variables in a MAT-file to the Workspace.
clear clear Clear all variables from the Workspace.
clc clc Clear all text from the Command Window.
format format long Change how numeric output is displayed.

Array types
Example Description
4 scalar
[3 5] row vector
[1;3] column vector
[3 4 5;6 7 8] matrix

Evenly-spaced vectors
Example Description
1:4 Create a vector from 1 to 4, spaced by 1, using the colon (:) operator.
1:0.5:4 Create a vector from 1 to 4, spaced by 0.5.
linspace(1,10,5)
Create a vector with 5 elements. The values are evenly spaced from 1 to
10.

Creating matrices
Example Description
rand(2) Create a square matrix with 2 rows and 2 columns.
zeros(2,3) Create a rectangular matrix with 2 rows and 3 columns.

Indexing
Example Description
A(end,2) Access the element in the second column of the last row.
A(2,:) Access the entire second row
A(1:3,:) Access all columns of the first three rows.
A(2) = 11 Change the value of the second element an array to 11.

Array operations
Example Description
[1 1; 1 1]*[2 2;2 2]
ans =
4 4 Perform matrix multiplication.
4 4
[1 1; 1 1].*[2 2;2 2]
ans =
2 2 Perform element-wise multiplication.
2 2

Multiple outputs
Example Description
[xrow,xcol] = Save the number of rows and columns in x to two different
size(x) variables.
[xMax,idx] = max(x)
Calculate the maximum value of x and its corresponding index
value.

Documentation
Example Description
doc randi Open the documentation page for the randi function.

 
Plotting
Example Description
plot(x,y,"ro-","LineWidth",5)
Plot a red (r) dashed (--) line with a
circle (o) marker, with a heavy line width.
hold on Add the next line to existing plot.
hold off Create a new axes for the next plotted line.
title("My Title") Add a label to a plot.

Using tables
Example Description
data.HeightYards
Extract the variable HeightYards from
the table data.
data.HeightMeters = Derive a table variable from existing
data.HeightYards*0.9144 data.

Logicals
Example Description
[5 10 15] > 12Compare a vector to the value 12.
v1(v1 > 6) Extract all elements in v1 that are greater than 6.
x(x==999) = 1 Replace all values in x that are equal to 999 with the value 1.

Programming
Example Description
if x > 0.5
y = 3 If x is greater than 0.5, set the value of y to 3.
else
y = 4 Otherwise, set the value of y to 4.
end
The loop counter (c) progresses through the
for c = 1:3
disp(c)
values 1:3 (1, 2, and 3).
end
The loop body displays each value of c.

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