Course Outline
Part 1
An Introduction to MATLAB
Objectives: Provide an overview of MATLAB's purpose, components, and capabilities.
- Comparison Example: C vs. MATLAB
- MATLAB Product Overview
- MATLAB Application Fields
- Benefits of Using MATLAB
- Course Outline
Navigating the MATLAB User Interface
Objective: Introduce the main features of the MATLAB integrated development environment and its interfaces, while outlining course themes.
- MATLAB Interface
- Reading data from files
- Saving and loading variables
- Plotting data
- Customizing plots
- Calculating statistics and best-fit lines
- Exporting graphics for use in other applications
Variables and Expressions
Objective: Learn to enter MATLAB commands, focusing on creating and accessing data within variables.
- Entering commands
- Creating variables
- Accessing help resources
- Accessing and modifying variable values
- Creating character variables
Analysis and Visualization with Vectors
Objective: Perform mathematical and statistical calculations with vectors and create basic visualizations. Discover how MATLAB syntax enables calculations on entire datasets with a single command.
- Calculations with vectors
- Plotting vectors
- Basic plot options
- Annotating plots
Analysis and Visualization with Matrices
Objective: Utilize matrices as mathematical objects or collections of vector data. Understand the appropriate use of MATLAB syntax to distinguish between these applications.
- Size and dimensionality
- Calculations with matrices
- Statistics with matrix data
- Plotting multiple columns
- Reshaping and linear indexing
- Multidimensional arrays
Part 2
Automating Commands with Scripts
Objective: Group MATLAB commands into scripts for easy reproduction and experimentation. As task complexity grows, entering long command sequences in the Command Window becomes impractical, making scripts essential.
- A Modeling Example
- The Command History
- Creating script files
- Running scripts
- Comments and Code Cells
- Publishing scripts
Working with Data Files
Objective: Import data from formatted files into MATLAB. Given the wide variety of data types and formats, emphasis is placed on working with cell arrays and date formats.
- Importing data
- Mixed data types
- Cell arrays
- Conversions among numerals, strings, and cells
- Exporting data
Multiple Vector Plots
Objective: Create more complex vector plots, such as multiple overlays, and use color and string manipulation techniques to produce visually appealing data representations.
- Graphics structure
- Multiple figures, axes, and plots
- Plotting equations
- Using color
- Customizing plots
Logic and Flow Control
Objective: Use logical operations, variables, and indexing techniques to create flexible code capable of making decisions and adapting to different scenarios. Explore programming constructs for repeating code sections and interacting with users.
- Logical operations and variables
- Logical indexing
- Programming constructs
- Flow control
- Loops
Matrix and Image Visualization
Objective: Visualize images and matrix data in two or three dimensions. Explore the differences in displaying images versus visualizing matrix data using images.
- Scattered Interpolation using vector and matrix data
- 3-D matrix visualization
- 2-D matrix visualization
- Indexed images and colormaps
- True color images
Part 3
Data Analysis
Objective: Perform typical data analysis tasks in MATLAB, including developing and fitting theoretical models to real-world data. This leads to one of MATLAB's most powerful features: solving linear systems of equations with a single command.
- Dealing with missing data
- Correlation
- Smoothing
- Spectral analysis and FFTs
- Solving linear systems of equations
Writing Functions
Objective: Enhance automation by encapsulating modular tasks as user-defined functions. Understand how MATLAB resolves references to files and variables.
- Why functions?
- Creating functions
- Adding comments
- Calling subfunctions
- Workspaces
- Subfunctions
- Path and precedence
Data Types
Objective: Explore data types, focusing on the syntax for creating variables and accessing array elements, and discuss methods for converting among data types. Data types differ in the kind of data they may contain and how that data is organized.
- MATLAB data types
- Integers
- Structures
- Converting types
File I/O
Objective: Explore low-level data import and export functions in MATLAB that allow precise control over text and binary file I/O. These include functions like textscan, which provides precise control when reading text files.
- Opening and closing files
- Reading and writing text files
- Reading and writing binary files
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Conclusion
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Objectives: Summarize what we have learned
- A summary of the course
- Other upcoming courses on MATLAB
Note that the course may be subject to a few minor discrepancies during delivery without prior notifications.
Requirements
- Undergraduate-level mathematical knowledge, including linear algebra, probability theory, statistics, and matrix concepts
- Basic computer operation skills
- A preferable, though not essential, basic understanding of a high-level programming language such as C, PASCAL, FORTRAN, or BASIC
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The many examples and the building of the code from start to finish.
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