Course Outline
Part 1
A Brief Introduction to MATLAB
Objectives: Provide an overview of what MATLAB is, its components, and its capabilities.
- Case Study: C vs. MATLAB
- Overview of MATLAB Products
- Application Fields for MATLAB
- Benefits of Using MATLAB
- Course Structure
Working with the MATLAB User Interface
Objective: Introduce the main features of the MATLAB integrated design environment and its interfaces, while outlining the core themes of the course.
- Understanding the 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. Observe how MATLAB syntax allows for calculations on entire datasets using a single command.
- Vector calculations
- 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 MATLAB syntax to distinguish between these applications.
- Size and dimensionality
- Matrix calculations
- Statistics with matrix data
- Plotting multiple columns
- Reshaping and linear indexing
- Multidimensional arrays
Part 2
Automating Commands with Scripts
Objective: Consolidate MATLAB commands into scripts for easier reproduction and experimentation. As task complexity increases, entering long command sequences in the Command Window becomes impractical.
- A Modelling Example
- The Command History
- Creating script files
- Running scripts
- Comments and Code Cells
- Publishing scripts
Working with Data Files
Objective: Import data into MATLAB from formatted files. 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 plots, using color and string manipulation techniques to produce visually compelling data representations.
- Graphics structure
- Multiple figures, axes, and plots
- Plotting equations
- Using color
- Customizing plots
Logic and Flow Control
Objective: Utilize logical operations, variables, and indexing techniques to create flexible code that can make decisions and adapt to various situations. 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 distinctions between displaying images and visualizing matrix data through imagery.
- 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 standard data analysis tasks in MATLAB, including developing and fitting theoretical models to real-life data. This naturally 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 vary in the kind of data they may contain and how the data is organized.
- MATLAB data types
- Integers
- Structures
- Converting types
File I/O
Objective: Explore the low-level data import and export functions in MATLAB that allow precise control over text and binary file I/O. These functions include textscan, which provides precise control over 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 learnt
- A summary of the course
- Other upcoming courses on MATLAB
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Requirements
- Fundamental undergraduate-level mathematical knowledge, including linear algebra, probability theory, statistics, and matrix concepts
- Basic computer literacy and operation skills
- Familiarity with another high-level programming language (such as C, PASCAL, FORTRAN, or BASIC) is advantageous but not mandatory
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