interval spacing on matlab - matlab

Hi I'm new to matlab and programming in general and I was wondering if anyone could tell me whats wrong with my code.
These were my instructions and values
Complete the implementation of the dampedOsc function, which evaluates and plots a graph showing the function y=e-0.8xcos 3x at a
set of points spaced at intervals of 0.1 and ranging from 0 to 3π.
The curve should be displayed using a magenta dotted line with
'pentagram' markers.
and my code:
function y = dampedOsc(x)
fplot(#(x) (exp(-0.8*x)*cos(3*x)),[0 3*pi()],'mp:')
end
All tests passed except this one:
Test 1 (Test that function has been plotted):
Actual value does not have correct size:
expectedSize =
1 95
actualSize =
1 98
Test failed.
I honestly have no idea whats gone wrong, I thought it was because of the lack
of point spaced intervals but I have no idea how to input it.

This is an interesting question, so I'll give it a stab. I would probably do something like this.
function z = dampedOsc(x)
if isvector(x) == 0
return
else
z = zeros(1,length(x));
for n = 1 : length(x)
y = exp(-0.8 .* x(n)) .* cos(3 .* x(n));
z(1,n) = y;
end
end
z
end
Then, calling that dampedOsc function from another script, should give the figure.
plot([0 : 0.1 : (3*pi)],dampedOsc(x),'mp:')
I don't have MATLAB in front of me right now, but I think this should work. If it doesn't, I can fix it. Good luck with your project!

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spurious lines using fimplicit on a modular function

I want to plot collections of repeating circular arcs and am having trouble with spurious lines showing up in the plots. For example, one of the plots I want is given by
a = #(x,y) ((mod(x,1) + 0.5).^2 + (mod(y,1) - 0.5).^2 - 1)
fimplicit(a,[-1,1],'MeshDensity',500)
but the output is incorrect as far as I can tell:
The implicit function is decidedly not zero on the verticle lines. I assume something funny is happening with the fimplicit algorithm and modular arithmetic. Any ideas how to get around this? Thanks!
That probably happens because your function is discontinuous at the lines x = k with k integer, as a surface plot reveals:
fsurf(a, [-2 2])
To verify that the discontinuity is the likely reason, consider the simpler example
f = #(x,y) (2*(x>=0)-1).*(2*(y>=0)-1);
This function is discontinuous at x = 0 and at y = 0. It jumps from 1 to −1 at x = 0 and at y = 0, but it never equals 0.
fsurf(f, [-2 2])
It can be seen that fimplicit is confused by the discontinuity, and thinks the function is 0 there:
fimplicit(f,[-2,2],'MeshDensity',500)
Looking at the source code of fimplicit, the actual work is seen to be done (on R2017b at least) by the class matlab.graphics.function.ImplicitFunctionLine in the second to last line. That class is a .p file, and is thus obfuscated, which means that unfortunately its source code cannot be seen.

How to write many functions depending on each other in matlab

I have some functions are depending on each ther , the functions are from this book page 136 http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/papers/bookfinal_ICA.pdf .. I functions are presented below , How to write following functions in matlab ??
y(t) = W(t-1)*x(t)
h(t) = P(t-1)*y(t)
P(t)=(1/B)*Tri[P(t-1)-m(t)*h^T(t)]
m(t) = h(t)/(B+y^T(t))*h(t))
e(t) = x(t)-W^T(t-1)*y(t)
W(t) = W(t-1) + m(t)*e^T(t)
It is solving the weight matrix W(t) iteratively .. I tried to do like this in matlab but I did not work so may be you can advice to correct the code :
for i=1:10
e=randn(3,5000);
A=[1 0 0;-0.5 0.5 0;0.3 0.1 0.1];
x=A*e;
y(t) = W(t-1)*x(t)
h(t) = P(t-1)*y(t)
P(t)=(1/B)*Tri[P(t-1)-m(t)*h^T(t)]
m(t) = h(t)/(B+y^T(t))*h(t))
e(t) = x(t)-W^T(t-1)*y(t)
W(t) = W(t-1) + m(t)*e^T(t)
end
Thanks
Ok. I can't really understand what you want, but your code shows that you don't understand some moments. I will try to clarify some moments to you:
for i = 2:10
x = rand(3);
y = W(:,:,i-1)*x;
h = P(:,:,i-1)*y;
m=h/(1+y'*h);
P(:,:,i)=P(:,:,i-1)*m*h';
e=x-W(:,:,i-1)'*y;
W(:,:,i)=W(:,:,i-1)+m*e';
end
You must go something like this: 1. you calculate x and use it to calculate other functions.
2. all of them are matrices. So you need to define it first. For example y = ones(3) etc. 3.Thats not y^T or e^T. Its transposing. If you do not feel difference it's early for you to solve this task :)
And the last: Tri function will create a some kind of problems to you, but it's defined at 136 page.
P.S. i missed beta becouse of don't know what is it :)

octave plot does not work properly

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Hi, the code above is my (slightly modified) rooo.m file.
I'm just trying to plot the function by typing into (octave) terminal
x = 1:1:40;
plot(x, rooo(x), '+');
But this will only print the graph of y=1.
I believe it's because of the y = 1; in the first line (btw the function itself returns the right value, say when I type rooo(3)).
When I change it to some other number (say b), the graph will show y =b.
Does anyone have an idea why this is happening??
I think it's not working because if you type rooo(x) at the command line, it will return a scalar result of 1, instead of a vector. The 1 < n logical condition doesn't work as you intended to when n is a vector.
Here is a suggestion to make it work (maybe not the most elegant but it seems to work):
CODE DELETED
Which, when called as in your question, gives the following plot
The results seem to be different from the ones reported in MATLAB though.
An alternative, if you don't want to modify your function, is to change the way you call it:
>> x = 1:1:40;
>> y = ones(size(x));
>> for k=1:length(x)
y(k) = rooo(x(k));
end
>> plot(x,y,'+')
This gives the same result as the above suggestion.
It's not working because you never enter the while loop with x starting at 1. Since
1 < n == 1 < x is false at the very beginning, the function returns.
However when you call rooo(3) or actually rooo(Anything > 1) it does work. With x = 1.1:1:40 the plot looks like this ( I made it with Matlab) :

Sampling and DTFT in Matlab

I need to produce a signal x=-2*cos(100*pi*n)+2*cos(140*pi*n)+cos(200*pi*n)
So I put it like this :
N=1024;
for n=1:N
x=-2*cos(100*pi*n)+2*cos(140*pi*n)+cos(200*pi*n);
end
But What I get is that the result keeps giving out 1
I tried to test each values according to each n, and I get the same results for any n
For example -2*cos(100*pi*n) with n=1 has to be -1.393310473. Instead of that, Matlab gave the result -2 for it and it always gave -2 for any n
I don't know how to fix it, so I hope someone could help me out! Thank you!
Not sure where you get the idea that -2*cos(100*pi) should be anything other than -2. Maybe you are not aware that Matlab works in radians?
Look at your expression. Each term can be factored to contain 2*pi*(an integer). And you should know that cos(2*pi*(an integer)) = 1.
So the results are exactly as expected.
What you are seeing is basically what happens when you under-sample a waveform. You may know that the Nyquist criterion says that you need to have a sampling rate that is at least two times greater than the highest frequency component present; but in your case, you are sampling one point every 50, 70, 100 complete cycles. So you are "far beyond Nyquist". And that can only be solved by sampling more closely.
For example, you could do:
t = linspace(0, 1, 1024); % sample the waveform 1024 times between 0 and 1
f1 = 50;
f2 = 70;
f3 = 100;
signal = -2*cos(2*pi*f1*t) + 2*cos(2*pi*f2*t) + cos(2*pi*f3*t);
figure; plot(t, signal)
I think you are using degrees when you are doing your calculations, so do this:
n = 1:1024
x=-2*cosd(100*pi*n)+2*cosd(140*pi*n)+cosd(200*pi*n);
cosd uses degrees instead of radians. Radians is the default for cos so matlab has a separate function when degree input is used. For me this gave:
-2*cosd(100*pi*1) = -1.3933
The first term that I got using:
x=-2*cosd(100*pi*1)+2*cosd(140*pi*1)+cosd(200*pi*1)
x = -1.0693
Also notice that I defined n as n = 1:1024; this will give all integers from 1,2,...,1024,
there is no need to use a for loop since many of Matlab's built in functions are vectorized. Meaning you can just input a vector and it will calculate the function for every element in the vector.

Local Minimum in MATLAB?

I'm simply trying to find the exact minimum of a simple function in MATLAB. I've been experimenting with the use of built-in functions such as "fminbnd" and inline function definition, but I don't think I quite know what I'm doing.
My code is below. I want to find the x and y of Error's minimum.
clear all
A = 5;
tau = linspace(1,4,500); %Array of many tau values between 1 and 4
E1 = qfunc(((-tau) + 5) /(sqrt(2.5)));
E0 = qfunc((tau)/(sqrt(2.5)));
Error = 0.5*E0 + 0.5*E1;
figure
subplot (311), plot(tau, E0);
xlabel('Threshold (Tau)'), ylabel('E0')
title('Error vs. Threshold (E0, 1 <= T <= 4)')
subplot (312), plot(tau, E1);
xlabel('Threshold (Tau)'), ylabel('E1')
title('Error vs. Threshold (E1, 1 <= T <= 4)')
subplot (313), plot(tau, Error);
xlabel('Threshold (Tau)'), ylabel('Pr[Error]');
title('Error vs. Threshold (Pr[Error], 1 <= T <= 4)')
I mean, I can use the cursor when the function is graphed to get close (though not right at the point where it occurs (Threshold = 2.5), but there must be a method just to print the number to the window. So far I have tried:
fminbnd('Error', 'E0', 'E1')
And many other variants. Also tried using anonymous and inline function definitions with no luck.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Feel foolish for being stuck with this simple problem... Any help greatly appreciated!
See fminbnd
You should try something like this:
Error =#(tau) 0.5*qfunc(((-tau) + 5) /(sqrt(2.5))) + 0.5*qfunc((tau)/(sqrt(2.5)));
x = fminbnd(Error,0,10)
The first argument of fminbnd(f,x1,x2) is the function and the other arguments are the bounds. I did f=Error, x1=0 and x2=10.
Output:
x=2.5000
Another way is to save your error function in .m file. See the webpage above.
I don't understand why you're using E0 and E1 as the limits of the range where the minimum should be found. Or am I misunderstanding something in your code?
Maybe if you have your function as a discrete collection of samples (as seems implied from your way of constructing it, error is going to be a matrix, I think), you could use the "min" command: http://www.mathworks.es/es/help/matlab/ref/min.html
Hope this helped!