Chapter 1 Exercises

MATLAB Exercises

The exercises that follow are to be solved computationally with the software package MATLAB, which is described in the appendix of this book. The exercises also contain questions that are related to the underlying mathematical principles illustrated in the computations. Save a record of your session in a file. After editing and printing out the file, you can fill in the answers to the questions directly on the printout.

MATLAB has a help facility that explains all its operations and commands. For example, to obtain information on the MATLAB command rand, you need only type help rand. The commands used in the MATLAB exercises for this chapter are inv, floor, rand, tic, toc, rref, abs, max, round, sum,

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