Steven Lord
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I joined The MathWorks in the Technical Support department during the summer of 2001 and transferred into the Quality Engineering department in March of 2004. I now work qualifying the core MATLAB numerical functions (PLUS, MINUS, LU, FFT, ODE45, etc.) Professional Interests: mathematics, MATLAB For assistance with MATLAB question please post to MATLAB Answers or contact Technical Support using the Contact Us link in the upper-right corner of the page instead of contacting me directly.
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How to fit my data to interpolated functions
Rather than defining your function as a large piece of text, I would define it as a function as per the "Fit a Curve Defined by ...
ungefär 20 timmar ago | 0
Averaging non-aligned time-series arrays
If those integer arrays represent some amount of time (seconds since the start of whatever experiment you used to collect the da...
ungefär 20 timmar ago | 0
How can I insert a variable into a plot legend, with a special character following the variable?
In addition to what the others have said, rather than passing empty strings into the legend function to skip one or more of the ...
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after inter activation key write for me Invalid Activation Key (510). For help resolving this issue, see this MATLAB Answer.
If following the instructions in that MATLAB Answers post linked in the error message did not solve the problem, please contact ...
5 dagar ago | 0
Cannot define a cell array of custom classes in function argument validation
What's the default value for your property? properties (Access = private) configurations (1, :) cell {mustBeA(configurat...
6 dagar ago | 0
I think, I might have a problem with the 'hold' part and I get the 'error while evaluating button privatebuttonpushedfcn'
Don't call figure if you don't want to create a new figure.
7 dagar ago | 1
Can I use a struct in an anonymous function?
When I run the ode15s I obtain an error which pertains to the inclusion of the struct as an input to the function. Please show...
7 dagar ago | 0
How to fill a variable with the results of an if...elseif statement
Rather than creating variables whose number of rows is not known ahead of time, I'd consider creating a table of coordinates and...
8 dagar ago | 0
I am getting errors that I am using ".*" and "*" wrongly in my matrix multiplications in my code. I am poor at matrix algebra and don't know when to use each operator.
Read through this documentation page and ask yourself the question: do I want to multiple each element of one array by the corre...
8 dagar ago | 0
Plotting a graph based on a large table
When you say "haven't got a clue how to do it" does that mean that you know what type of plot you want to create but don't know ...
9 dagar ago | 0
Subtracting matrices by column and performing a summation.
Some functions you'll find useful are the diff, abs, and sum functions. The latter two are pretty easy to find in the doc by sea...
9 dagar ago | 0
Choose any workspace from dbstack for evalin
It comes to me whether I can specify any workspace found in the dbstack here. No. For the evalin function in MATLAB you can spe...
9 dagar ago | 0
splitting a vector into separate vectors
Can you dynamically create variables with numbered names like V1, V2, V3, etc.? Yes. Should you do this? The general consensus ...
9 dagar ago | 1
Deployed Matlab function with strage errors: functions not found
I am fairly certain that the limitation described in the "Do Not Rely on Changing Directory or Path to Control the Execution of ...
10 dagar ago | 1
Using a variable in an input prompt
Another possibility you can use in recent releases of MATLAB (since I think release R2016a) is to use a string array. ii = 5; ...
11 dagar ago | 0
Compare char data in a cell {'x'} to a character 'x'
You've got a lot in here. I'm going to step through certain parts. Let's start off with this comment (formatting added, your wo...
12 dagar ago | 0
How do i multiply this matrix to work in MATLAB, it keeps sending an error
What did you expect to happen when you typed p. in your expression? That's not valid MATLAB syntax. If you had a number instead ...
13 dagar ago | 0
Changing the value of only one parameter causes a problem (possibly with while loop)
Let's look at the while loop. while (V(i) >= Vmax) D(i)=floor(20*(sqrt(4*Q(i)/(pi*Vmin))))/20; V(i)=Q(i)/(pi...
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Examples missing from requirements toolbox installation
I'm not 100% certain, but it looks like this page from the release R2022b documentation (the third entry under Topics in the Req...
14 dagar ago | 0
Duration of time values for separate datasets and plotting on x-axis
set0_time=["085440","091530","092000","093020","100000","100020","101325"]; set0 = set0_time; set0_ydata=[30 50 60 72 82 85 88...
15 dagar ago | 0
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How can I bring back the command prompt in the command window after it disappeared ??? I cant execute commands !! if I press enter the commands disappear,
In the lower-left corner the status message says "Waiting for input". Does your code call the input function (perhaps with an em...
15 dagar ago | 0
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How to reopen tabs for different projects
Sounds like you may want to create a MATLAB Project for each of your projects.
15 dagar ago | 0
Undefined function or variable 'aviread'. >> aviread('traffic.avi'); Undefined function or variable 'aviread'.
There used to be an aviread function in MATLAB, but I believe it was removed sometime around release R2014b. The recommended rep...
16 dagar ago | 1
how i can show in matlab tha sqrt(x^2)=x in symbolic toolbox
That's not true in the general case. A = 1; h0 = 1; dhmax = 2; B = -5; lhs = ((2*A*dhmax + B*h0)^2/h0^2)^(1/2) rhs = (2*A*...
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An absolutely ascending sequence
Those who have said there is no function for this are incorrect. The issorted function allows you to ask if an array is sorted a...
18 dagar ago | 4
Strange case of Code analyzer and if-else block
It’s rather obvious that only one of the blocks will execute, and it seems redundant for the analyzer to flag this. In this cir...
18 dagar ago | 0
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The rotation in the rectangle function in matlab cannot be used, but the 2022 version can be used.
try rectangle('Position',[1 2 5 6],'Rotation',45); catch ME fprintf("This command threw the following error:\n%s", ME...
19 dagar ago | 0
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How can I fix ODE45 returning a straight line when using specific `tspan` points, instead of showing dynamic behavior over the time range?
Your ode_LR function is defined to accept four input arguments, the two required arguments plus two additional parameters. func...
19 dagar ago | 0
error running getting started code
If you're using this matrix: a = [1 3 5 2 4 6 7 8 9]; the warning is correct. The matrix y...
20 dagar ago | 0
Using "unique" to identify unique values AND number of occurrences of each unique value
Use the groupcounts function. A = {'AGAP001076-RD' 282 0.67229 'AGAP001076-RD' 285 0.75292 'AGAP001076-RD' 286 0.66957 'AGAP...
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