MATLAB MONDAYS💥- Crash Course part-2

Welcome all! ❤️‍🔥 This Monday let us learn pre-baked MATLAB functions which we can just use off the shelf. After that we will learn the loop in MATLAB.🤟

In built Functions in MATLAB

MATLAB supports standard mathematical functions like sin, cos, log, exponentiation, square root, and many more.
However, unlike many languages, input for these functions can be an integer or even an matrix vectors.
Many MATLAB functions take in multiple inputs and return multiple outputs. eg. the min function can take in an array of numbers and output both, the smallest number and the position of the smallest number.

Similarly, the function plot takes in two matrices and plots their values. The plot connects all the points represented by the x,y pairs.

Another similer function is scatter() which generates the scatterplot of the functions.

MATLAB contains loads of other functions, whose documentation can be found out here

One more valuable function is rand(), which returns a random value.

>> x=rand()

x =

    0.8147

Program control statements
MATLAB has the for loop syntax as follows

for i=a:b
 c=d
end

Here the running variable i assumes values from 0,99
Python equivalent of this statement is

for i in range(a,b):
 #function

Here is a sample program-

The if else statement has the following syntax

if a<b
 a=b
elseif a>b
 a=0
else
 b=0
end

The Python equivalent is

if a<b:
 a=b
elif a>b:
 a=0
else:
 b=0

Here is a sample

>> x=10;
>> if x<10
x=3
>> elseif x==10
>> x=pi
>> else
>> x=100
>> end
x =

    3.1416

While loop
MATLAB also has the while loop with syntax as

while condition
statement
end

For an infinite loop,

while true
 statement
end

Here is an example which uses while loop- the Collatz conjuncture

>> for k=1:100
x=k;
while x>1
if mod(x,2)==0
x=x/2
else
x=3*x+1
end
end
end

Note that % operator in python is replaced by the mod() function in MATLAB mod(a,b) is equivalent to a%b

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