Matlab

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2. Session 1
Content
 What is Matlab ?
 Introducing the Matlab Development Environment
 Performing Basic Arithmetic,
 Performing Logical and Relational Operations
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3. What is Matlab?
 The name Matlab stands for matrix laboratory.
 It is a high-performance language for technical computing.
 Matlab can deal with Modeling ,simulation , Data analysis , Scientific and
engineering graphics,…….
 Matlab can deal with sounds, images ,text, excel data,…… .
 Matlab is an interactive system whose basic data element is an array
that does not require dimensioning. This allows you to solve many
technical computing problems, especially those with matrix and vector
formulations, in a fraction of the time it would take to write a program in a
scalar non-interactive language such as C or Fortran.
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4. Introducing the Matlab Development
Environment
If you happen to get employed in a new place, the first thing you would
probably do is to take a brief tour to experience your new
workplace and its subdivisions, or what we alternatively refer to by
the term “Development Environment”.
For someone working in a factory, the development environment refers
to the work place with all its subdivisions and all the resources and
tools it contains.
For Matlab users, the development environment refers similarly to the
Matlab window and all the resources and tools it contains.
The first step in understanding how Matlab works is to experience its
development environment.
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5.  When you start Matlab, the figure on the next page depicts what you
will see.
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7. The Command Window
 The command window is an interpreter where you can write and
execute instructions one at a time or few at a time.
 You know where to write your next instruction from the „>>‟ mark,
which is called the command prompt.
The Workspace Browser
 The workspace is the group of variables (arrays) you are working with.
 The workspace browser provides you with an overview of the workspace,
meaning that it shows you the variable you have created so far.
 It shows you the variable name, size, data type and its value if the value is
compact enough to be displayed, such as that of a single number or few
characters.
 By double clicking on any variable, you get to inspect this variable in detail.
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8. The Command History
 It is an archive of commands previously executed in the command window.
You may use it to retrieve and re-execute previous commands.
 The command window doesn‟t log your commands from the day you first
opened Matlab; it has a maximum buffer size.
 Once reached, any new command will append to the bottom of the buffer,
causing the topmost command to be lost.
 By setting the buffer size to 10,000 for instance, you can make the command
window “remember” your last 10,000 commands.
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9. The Current Directory
 Below the workspace, you can see a tab selection that
lets you select either the workspace or the current
directory to view.
 Click on the “Current Directory” tab.
 The current directory is a folder you choose to be your
default working folder.
 Whenever Matlab requires a user file, it will start its
search by looking into this folder.
 Whenever Matlab needs to save a user file, it will save it
in this folder by default.
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10. The rest of the elements of the development environment
do not appear at startup by default, but you can call
them whenever you need them. We continue our
discussion of the development environment by looking at the
rest of its elements like:
 The Array Editor.
 The M-File Editor.
 The Figure Window.
 The GUI Development Environment (GUIDE).
 Simulink.
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11. The Array Editor
 The array editor is a window that opens to show you the contents of a
variable (array) and possibly make you change these contents.
 The array editor opens when you double click on a variable in the workspace
browser.
 The figure below shows an instant of the array editor opened to show us
variable “ImA”, a matrix resulting from loading an image into the workspace.

12. The M-File Editor
 The M-File Editor is a text-entry window where you can write down complete
programs.
 The following figure depicts the M-File editor.
 You can start the M-File editor by typing edit at the command prompt (>>edit)
or by clicking the New M-File button on the startup screen.
 The M-File editor contains facilities for writing, debugging and running your
programs.
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13. The Figure Window
 A figure window is a window used with graphics.
 A graphic cannot be displayed in the command window.
 Therefore it opens in a separate window equipped with facilities for handling
graphic, which is the figure window.

14. The GUI Development Environment(GUIDE)
 The GUIDE is a tool for building GUIs like the one shown above.
 The GUIDE may be started by typing guide at the command prompt (>>guide)
or by going to New -> GUI in the Matlab File menu.
 The development environment for GUIs will then open. The GUI tool looks as
depicted in the figure below.

15. Simulink
 Simulink is a Matlab-associated package used for system design, modeling and
system analysis.
 The figure below shows an example of a house thermodynamic subsystem
designed using Simulink.
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16. Basic Arithmetic,
Relational and Logical
Operations
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17. Basic Arithmetic, Relational and Logical
Operations
 Matlab always starts by evaluating the right-hand-side (RHS) of the
expression, which is (2 + 3).
 This operation evaluates to (5).
 So Matlab will try to assign the value 5 to the left-hand-side (LHS), which is
(E).
 However, the variable (E) does not exist yet, so Matlab will create a variable
called (E) then carry out the assignment.
 Hence the result of this expression is that E equals 5.
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18. Basic Arithmetic, Relational and
Logical Operations
Note:
 If the variable E already existed, its previous contents will be replaced
by the result of evaluating the new expression.
 If the expression contains an operation without a LHS variable to which the
result may be assigned, Matlab automatically uses a default variable
called “ans‟ standing for “answer”. To try this, write (>> 2+3).
 If you append any expression by a semicolon (;), the expression will
be evaluated normally, but the output of its evaluation won’t be
reported in the command prompt.
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19. Arithmetic Operations
 The following table shows a list of the available arithmetic operations and
their description.
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20. Logical Operations
 In arithmetic operations, the operands may have any numerical values.
 In logical operations, the operands may have one of two values: either
nonzero or zero (also called true or false).
 In input operands, 0 is used to indicate (logic 0), while any number other than
0 may be used to indicate (logic 1).
 In the results of a logical operation, a 0 is always used to indicate (logic 0)
while a 1 is always used to indicate (logic 1).
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21. Logical Operations
Note:
 Other logical operations such as NANDing, NORing and XNORing may be
performed by combining two or more of the previous operators.
 Example: c=~(A|B) is equivalent to NORing A with B then assigning the result to c.
Logic 0 is also referred to as „False‟, and logic 1 is also referred to as „True‟.
Examples:
 >>a=-5;b=2;c=0;
 >>x=a & b ;
 %x=1
 >>y=c & b ;
 %y=0
 >>z=c | b ;
 %z=1
 >>w=~b ;
 %w=0
Note:
 You can get up to the previous commands by using the up and down arrows.

22. Relational Tests
 Relational operations are simple in their concept. A relational operation is a
test done on a certain expression. Hence, they are also called relational
tests.
 The test evaluates to (Logic 1) if the expression is true and evaluates to
(Logic 0) if the expression is false.
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23. Relational Tests
Examples:
 >>a=5;b=2;
 >>x=a>b;
 %x=1
 >>x=(a~=b)
 %x=1
Note:
 Many users confuse the double equality sign (==) used in relational tests with
the equality sign (=) used in assignments.
 When a user uses (=) instead of (==), Matlab usually reports that an expected
relational operator wasn’t found.
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24. Combining Different Operations
 Let us assume that we want to operate an alarm mechanism if an “automatic
temperature alarm” button is pressed and the room temperature exceeds the
nominal by 5 degrees.
 The status of the “automatic temperature alarm” button is 0 if the button is
not pressed and is 1 if the button is pressed.
 The temperature is read by a sensor.
 We may use Matlab interfacing techniques to read the status of the button
and the value of the temperature into 2 variables “STATUSon” and “Temp”
respectively.
 We want to create a variable „Alarm‟ which is 1 if the button is pressed and
the temperature exceeds the nominal temperature „Nominal‟ by 5.
 The expression used to compute such variable is:
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