RESULTS

Part A : Creating and Manipulate the Matrix in MATLAB

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4. Creating Matrix A

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PART B : x-y Cartesian Plots in MATLAB

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PART C : Simulink

DISCUSSION

From the lab work 4 MatLab for Engineering Application on Matrix

Operations, Graph Plotting and Simulink we had used the Matlab 7.1 software to
perform matrix operation, Graph plotting and Simulink. The basic element in
MATLAB is the matrix. In its simplest form a matrix is a set of numbers or
elements arranged in a rectangular grid of horizontal rows and vertical columns.
Every row or column in a matrix is also called a vector. An array with m rows and
n columns is referred as an m times n matrix, denoted by m n indicating the
size or the matrix dimension, consisting of a total number of m*n elements.
In part A we had created and manipulated the matrix in MATLAB where we
had created the matrix by typing each elements of a row, row by row, with a
space separating the elements in that row. Then, we also had used semicolons to
separate the rows of the matrix and to form the columns of the matrix. The
increment is done by using the colon : where is should be written as (initial
value : increment value : final value). Besides that, the input statement also
can be used to enter a string with or without the argument s present and with
or without quotes . Then, matrix command such as space, comma , for rows
and semicolon ; were used to perform a 3 by 3 matrix. With the matrix that
have been created the size of the matrix, row and column size, length of the
matrix and the elements in the matrix can be found by using some specific
command such as size ( A), [row,col] = size( A ), length (A) and A(n,m)
respectively. Colons when used as an argument identify a range over a row or a
column depending on its location and when a matrix index is replaced by a colon,
the colon represents depending on its location, either all the rows or all the
columns. The colon in front of the commands displays the row whereas if the
colon is placed behind the commands will display the columns. For square values
of each elements it should written as the A.^2 where A is the matrix and each of
its value squared. Finally, to find the sum and products for the matrices such as
n=(1: 5) it should written as sum(n) where it return the sum of the entire column
of the matrix n and prod(n) where it will return the product of the entire column
of the matrix n
In part B we had created x-y Cartesian plots in MATLAB. We had used the
command plot (x,y) to plot the graph for vectors. We also have used the fplot
command to create some graph. The difference between plot and fplot is the
fplot graph will be smooth compared to the constructed using just plot. Besides
that we have applied all the commands that we have learnt in pervious part and
labs when doing this part such colon where it is used for increment, * for
multiplication and many more. We also constructed two graph together and
changed the colour and marks for the both graph so it can be differentiated.
Finally, once we had created the graph we had use some commands to show the
legend, box, grid, xlabel, ylabel, adjust text size and write the title for the graph
that have been constructed.

In part C we had executed the simulink design where we had used

the simulink library to construct the DC motor with shaft velocity as the output
design. We had plotted a graph for the executed simulink and showed grid,
xlabel, ylabel, adjust text size and write the title for the graph that have been
constructed.
While performing this lab work we had experienced some error such as
typing error. We had faced this error when we was typing the command. Besides
that, we also faced some error due to wrong selection of the elements from the
simulink library. We had overcome these errors by repeating and retyping the
command until we get the correct result. Ours lecturers also helped us to
indentify our errors and how to solve it. Through this, we have experience on
how to encounter the same error again after this.