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Lecture 5

This document discusses various plotting functions in MATLAB, including: - Plotting a vector y versus its index using plot(y) - Plotting y versus x using plot(x,y) - Specifying line styles, colors, and markers - Adding multiple plots to the same figure using hold on - Creating subplots using subplot(m,n,p) - Setting axis limits with axis - Adding labels and titles with functions like xlabel and title It provides examples of using these functions and exercises for the reader to practice different plotting techniques.

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Lecture 5

This document discusses various plotting functions in MATLAB, including: - Plotting a vector y versus its index using plot(y) - Plotting y versus x using plot(x,y) - Specifying line styles, colors, and markers - Adding multiple plots to the same figure using hold on - Creating subplots using subplot(m,n,p) - Setting axis limits with axis - Adding labels and titles with functions like xlabel and title It provides examples of using these functions and exercises for the reader to practice different plotting techniques.

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Experiment No.

( 5 )
Plotting Function

MATLAB has extensive facilities for displaying vectors and matrices as graphs,
as well as annotating and printing these graphs.

5-1 Creating a Plot Using Plot Function

The plot function has different forms, depending on the input arguments. If y is a
vector, plot(y) produces a piecewise linear graph of the elements of y versus the index of the
elements of y. If you specify two vectors as arguments, plot(x,y) produces a graph of
y versus x. For example, these statements use the colon operator to create a vector of x values
ranging from zero to 2*pi, compute the sine of these values, and plot the result.

x = 0:pi/100:2*pi;
y = sin(x);
plot(y)

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Experiment No. (5) Plotting Function

Now plot y variable by using:

plot(x,y)
can you see the difference at x-axis

5-2 Specifying Line Styles and Colors

Various line types, plot symbols and colors may be obtained with plot(x,y,s) where s is
a character string made from one element from any or all the following 3 columns:

Color Marker Line Style


b blue . point - solid
g green o circle : dotted
r red x x-mark -. dashdot
c cyan + plus -- dashed
m magenta * star (none) no line
y yellow s square
k black d diamond
v triangle (down)
> triangle (left)
p pentagram
h hexagram

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Experiment No. (5) Plotting Function

Example:

x1 = 0:pi/100:2*pi;
x2 = 0:pi/10:2*pi;
plot(x1,sin(x1),'r:',x2,cos(x2),'r+')

5-3 Adding Plots to an Existing Graph


The hold command enables you to add plots to an existing graph. When you type
hold on MATLAB does not replace the existing graph when you issue another plotting
command; it adds the new data to the current graph, rescaling the axes if necessary.

Example:

x1 = 0:pi/100:2*pi;
x2 = 0:pi/10:2*pi;
plot(x1,sin(x1),'r:')

hold on

plot(x2,cos(x2),'r+')

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Experiment No. (5) Plotting Function

5-4 Multiple Plots in One Figure

The subplot command enables you to display multiple plots in the same window or
print them on the same piece of paper. Typing
subplot(m,n,p)

partitions the figure window into an m-by-n matrix of small subplots and selects the pth
subplot for the current plot. The plots are numbered along first the top row of the figure
window, then the second row, and so on. For example, these statements plot data in four
different sub regions of the figure window.

t = 0:pi/10:2*pi;
x=sin(t); y=cos(t); z= 2*y-3*x; v=5-z;
subplot(2,2,1); plot(x)
subplot(2,2,2); plot(y)
subplot(2,2,3); plot(z)
subplot(2,2,4); plot(v)

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Experiment No. (5) Plotting Function

5-5 Setting Axis Limits

By default, MATLAB finds the maxima and minima of the data to choose the axis
limits to span this range. The axis command enables you to specify your own limits
axis([xmin xmax ymin ymax])

5-6 Axis Labels and Titles

The xlabel, ylabel, and zlabel commands add x-, y-, and z-axis labels. The title command
adds a title at the top of the figure and the text function inserts text anywhere in the figure.

Example:

t = -pi:pi/100:pi;
y = sin(t);
plot(t,y)
axis([-pi pi -1 1])
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Experiment No. (5) Plotting Function

xlabel('-\pi to \pi')
ylabel('sin(t)')
title('Graph of the sine function')
text(1,-1/3,'Note the odd symmetry')

Graph of the sine function


1

0.8

0.6

0.4

0.2
sin(t)

-0.2
Note the odd symmetry
-0.4

-0.6

-0.8

-1
-3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3
-π to π

Notice the symbol

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Experiment No. (5) Plotting Function

Exercises

1- Plot sawtooth waveform as shown below

2- Plot Sinc function, where Sinc (x) = sin(x) / x , and -2π ≤ x ≤ 2π


3- Plot sin(x) and cos(x) on the same figure, then on the same axis using different colors.
4- if y=sin(x), z=cos(x), v=exp(x), where -π ≤ x ≤ π
could you plot y, z, v as shown below!

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