MATLAB 2018 Essential Training

Introduction

• Use MATLAB for data calculation
• What you should know

1. Starting Out with MATLAB 2018

• Tour the MATLAB Workspace window
• Define variables and constants
• Overview of arithmetic, comparison, and logical operators
• Explore arithmetic, comparison, and logical operators
• Define ranges of values
• Summarize values using built-in functions
• Generate random numbers
• Get help in MATLAB

2. Managing Vectors and Matrices

• Define vectors and matrices
• Refer to matrix and vector elements
• Overview of matrix multiplication
• Perform matrix multiplication
• Perform scalar and element-wise operations on vectors and matrices
• Use vectors and matrices in a function
• Generate special matrices
• Transpose and find the inverse of matrices

3. Creating MATLAB Scripts

• Create a MATLAB script
• Accept input values in a script
• Display values within a script
• Write values to an external file
• Load values from a file into a script
• Create a user-defined function

4. Conditional Logic and Loops

• Include if and if-else statements in a script
• Apply conditional logic using Switch
• Examine values using the is statements
• Use is statements
• Perform operations multiple times using for loops
• Perform operations while a specific condition is true

5. Managing Strings and Data Structures

• Define string variables
• Concatenate strings
• Create a custom string using sprintf
• Clean text by removing white space and changing case
• Compare, find, and replace strings
• Convert strings to numbers

6. Performing Advanced Plotting and Statistical Analysis

• Plot data and function output
• Create other plot types
• Format plot elements
• Save and print plots
• Summarize data using statistical functions
• Solve systems of linear equations using matrix functions

Conclusion

• Further information