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| ====== Matlab vocabulary, up to exam 1 ====== | ====== Matlab vocabulary, up to exam 1 ====== | ||
| - | You should be familiar with the following Matlab programming constructs and functions. | + | You should be familiar with the following Matlab programming constructs and functions. I've marked issues on which I expect some confusion with (!). |
| <code> | <code> | ||
| compact scientific notation (e.g. 1.4e-06) | compact scientific notation (e.g. 1.4e-06) | ||
| complex numbers (e.g. 3 + 4*i) | complex numbers (e.g. 3 + 4*i) | ||
| - | Inf, NaN | + | Inf, NaN (!) |
| = assignment | = assignment | ||
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| accessing elements of vectors and matrices | accessing elements of vectors and matrices | ||
| - | (both single elements and subsets) | + | (single elements, rows, columns, and subsets (!)) |
| linear algebra operations on vectors and matrices | linear algebra operations on vectors and matrices | ||
| + - * \ ^ ' | + - * \ ^ ' | ||
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| - | elementwise operations on vectors, matrices | + | elementwise operations on vectors, matrices (!) |
| - + .* ./ .^ | - + .* ./ .^ | ||
| logical (boolean) operations | logical (boolean) operations | ||
| - | == | + | == (!) |
| - | ~= | + | ~= (!) |
| > | > | ||
| < | < | ||
| >= | >= | ||
| <= | <= | ||
| - | ~ | + | ~ (!) |
| && (simple AND) | && (simple AND) | ||
| || (simple OR) | || (simple OR) | ||
| & (componentwise AND for vectors) | & (componentwise AND for vectors) | ||
| | (componentwise OR for vectors) | | (componentwise OR for vectors) | ||
| - | xor (for both vectors and simple logical variables) | + | xor (for both vectors and simple logical variables) (!) |
| zero means false | zero means false | ||
| nonzero means true | nonzero means true | ||
| + | any | ||
| + | all | ||
| + | find | ||
| + | | ||
| constructing matrices and vectors | constructing matrices and vectors | ||
| square brackets [ ] | square brackets [ ] | ||
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| scripts | scripts | ||
| </code> | </code> | ||
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| + | You should be able to | ||
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| + | * interpret various log-linear plots as x-y relationships of the form $y = mx + b$, $y = c 10^x$, $y = m \log x + b$, and $y = c x^m$ (!) | ||
| + | * convert linear story problems into matrix-vector equations and solve them | ||
| + | * write Matlab code for constructing plots of functions, with labels, legends, and specified line styles and colors | ||
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