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EGR106 Week 6. MATLAB FILES Two Dimensional Plots Multiple Plots Plot Formatting Homework. MATLAB Files. Script files (m files) Text files Contain MATLAB commands Data Files (mat files) binary files Contain arrays (data) Use “save” and “load” commands to write and read.
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EGR106 Week 6 • MATLAB FILES • Two Dimensional Plots • Multiple Plots • Plot Formatting • Homework
MATLAB Files • Script files (m files) • Text files • Contain MATLAB commands • Data Files (mat files) • binary files • Contain arrays (data) • Use “save” and “load” commands to write and read
Two Dimensional Plots • Line type • plot(x,y,’--’) gives a dashed line • Line color • plot(x,y,’g’) gives a green line • Line thickness • Markers • plot(x,y,’--r*’,’linewidth’,2,’markersize’,12) • Dashed red line with * marker
Multiple Plots • Plot(x, y1, x, y2) Plots y1 and y2 vs x • hold on • Keeps the plot window open for additional lines on the same plot • hold off • Stops writing to the plot • subplot(n,m,k) • Selects plot k in an nxm array of plots. • Used for multiple plots on the same page.
Plot Formatting • xlabel, ylabel • xlabel(‘time (sec)’) • title • title(‘Problem 3 Solution’) • text • text(x,y,’your message at coordinates x,y’) • legend • legend(‘first curve’,’second curve’) • used for multiple curves on a single plot
Plot Formatting • Subscripts and superscripts • Greek letters • Rotating text
Line Properties and Values plot(x,y, 'linewidth',5 ) line width is 5 “points”
>> x=0:2:10; >> y=x.^2; >> plot(x,y,'--r*','linewidth',2,'markersize',12) >> text(2,50,'\fontsize{30} \alpha Profit= x^2 ', 'rotation',45)
Line Specifiers plot(x,y, ' r : d ' ) red dotted line diamonds
Multiple Plots on the Same Axes • Plot allows multiple sets of arrays and line specifiers: Note colors rotate
Two Useful Commands • figure • alone it opens a new window • figure(n) takes you to window n • ginput(1) • creates crosshairs on the screen • returns (x,y) location of cursor at mouse click • ginput(n) returns n pairs of locations
Formatting Plots – Adding Text • Week 1: • xlabel( 'string' ) • ylabel( 'string' ) • title( 'string' ) • text( x, y, 'string' ) • New: • gtext( 'string' ) – cursor controlled • legend( 'string1', … 'stringn', loc)
Multiple Axes in One Figure - Subplot subplot(2,2,1) plot(x1,y1) subplot(2,2,2) etc. Argument is rows, columns, choice
Other Types of 2-D Plots - Polar x = 1:100; r = log10(x); t = x/10; polar( t, r ) magnitude angle in radians
Other Notes • Line specifiers, properties, axis, grid, … work on many of the plot types • Most of these tools have additional features – use the help function • 3-dimensional plots are available (chapter 9) with viewpoint options