area under curve for just 1 period

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john
john on 21 Feb 2012
hi i have a periodic function x_plot and id like to find the area under the curve for only one period. how would i be able to do preferably using numerical integration (sum of x(t)dt from t=0 to T) i tried to just type what i just did but cant do a calculation on it using 0 im a beginner and dont know much about matlab yet

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Honglei Chen
Honglei Chen on 21 Feb 2012
There are many integration methods in MATLAB, just pick one of them.
doc quad
doc quadl
doc integral
I'll use quad as an example. Let's say I want to integrate a sin function, which has a period of 2*pi,
quad(@sin,0,2*pi)

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