ME 123 Computer Applications I Lecture 25: MATLAB Overview 4/28/03

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ME 123Computer Applications ILecture
25MATLAB Overview4/28/03
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Reminder

• Exam 2 will be on tomorrow (2 parts)
• 1st part closed book, closed notes, closed
  computer
• 2nd part closed book, closed notes, open computer

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Road Map of Lecture 25

• Corrections to final project description
• Review on course materials
• Address any question on Exam 2

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Review for Exam 2

• Definition of scalar, vector, matrix naming
  convention
• 2-D plotting (line, marker, labeling, legend,
  etc.)
• Input/Output (command line, data file, etc.)
• User defined function (input/output list), m-file
• Solution to system of equations (unique solution)
• if statement, relational operators
• for loop
• switch statement
• while loop

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Review for Exam 2 (contd)

• Solution to over-constrained system of equations
  (least square solution), includes curve fitting
  applications
• Advanced plotting
• Character strings
• Integration of if statements, if loops, while
  loops and function subprograms to solve complex
  problems
• Examples
• Partial sum calculator
• Prime number finder
• Square root approximator
• Statistics menu

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Review for Exam 2 (contd)

• Examples (contd)
• Numerical integration
• Trapezoidal method
• Rectangular method
• Simpsons rule
• Root finding
• Bisection method
• Secant method
• Newton-Raphson method
• Time marching
• Explicit Euler
• 4th order Runge-Kutta