MATLAB Essential Training

Introduction

• Getting started with MATLAB
• What you should know
• Get help in MATLAB

1. Managing Ranges, Vectors, and Matrices

• Define ranges of values
• Generate random numbers
• Perform scalar and element-wise operations
• Describe matrix multiplication
• Perform matrix multiplication
• Use vectors and matrices in a function
• Transpose and find the inverse of matrices

2. 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

3. Creating Conditional Logic and Loops

• Include if and elseif statements in a script
• Apply conditional logic using switch
• Describe the is statements
• Compare values using the is statements
• Perform operations multiple times using for loops
• Perform operations while a specific condition is true
• Move to next iteration of a for or while loop using continue
• End a for or while loop using break

4. Managing 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

5. Plotting Data and Functions

• Plot data and function output
• Create other plot types
• Create a scatter plot
• Format plot elements
• Save and print plots

6. Performing Statistical and Numerical Analysis

• Solve systems of linear equations using matrix functions
• Summarize data using statistical functions
• Identify top and bottom values in a data set
• Evaluate a function given a specific input
• Evaluate a polynomial at a given point

Conclusion

• Further information