ARRAY & MATRIX OPERATIONS USING MATLAB

Lab Exercise No. _____

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I. OBJECTIVES
To perform basic operations and use arrays in MATLAB such as
1. Perform array operations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
and exponentiation.

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2. Perform matrix operations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division

and exponentiation.
II. MATERIALS & EQUIPMENT
(1) PC
(1) MATLAB v6 or higher

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III. WORKED EXAMPLES

1. TRANSPORTATION ROUTE ANALYSIS. The following table gives data for the distance
traveled along five truck routes and the corresponding time required to traverse
each route.

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1
560

2
440

Distance
(miles)
Time (hrs)
10.3
8.2
Table 1. Transportation Route Data

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Solution:

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distance = [560 440 490 530 370];

time =
[10.3 8.2 9.1 10.1 7.5];
%a
speed = distance./time

3
490

4
530

5
370

9.1

10.1

7.5

1
2
4
R (ohms)
10
2 x 104
V (volts)
120
80
Table 2. Resistance & Voltage Data
Solution:

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R = [1e4 2e4
3.5e4 1e5
V = [120 80
110
200
current = V./R
power_dissipation = V.^2./R

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2e5];
350];

3
3.5 x 104
110

4
105
200

5
2 x 105
350

Output:
current =
0.0120

0.0040

0.0031

0.0020

0.0018

power_dissipation =
1.4400 0.3200 0.3457

0.4000

0.6125

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4. SPECIAL PRODUCTS. Use MATLAB to compute the dot product of the following
vectors:
U = 6i 8j + 3k

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Process

Hours Required to Produce One Unit

Product 1
Product 2
Product 3

Hourly Cost
($)
Lathe
10
6
Grinding
12
2
Milling
14
3
Welding
9
4
Table 3. Manufacturing Cost Analysis

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Solution:

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5
3
2
0

4
1
5
3

(a) Calculation of Process Cost:

hourly_cost_Process = [10 12 14 9];
Product1_hours = [6 2 3 4];
Process_cost = hourly_cost_Process .* Product1_hours

Output:
Process_cost =
60 24 42

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(b) Calculation of Unit Cost:

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Product2_hours = [5 3 2 0];

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Path Segment
1
2
3
4
Force (N)
400
550
700
500
Distance (m)
2
0.5
0.75
1.5
Table 4. Force Data
Use MATLAB to find
(a)
The work done on each segment of the path, and
(b)
The total work done over the entire path.

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5
600
3

Material
1
2
3
4
5

Price ($/ton)
300
550
400
250
500

Quantity Purchased (tons)

May
June
5
4
3
2
6
5
3
5
2
4

July
6
4
3
4
3

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Use MATLAB to answer the following questions:

a. Create a 3 x 5 matrix containing the amounts spent on each item for
each month.

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b. What is the total spent in May? In June? In July?

c. What is the total spent on each material in the three-month period?
d. What is the total spent on all materials in the three-month period?

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4.

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ELECTRICAL RESISTIVE NETWORK ANALYSIS (Mesh)

The electrical circuit shown below consists of resistors and voltage sources.
Determine the current in each resistor using the mesh current method which is
based on Kirchhoffs voltage law.
V1 = 20 V, V2 = 12 V, V3 = 40 V
R1 = 18 , R2 = 10 , R3 = 16
R4 = 6 , R5 = 15 , R6 = 8
R7 = 12 , R8 = 14

R 1
18
V1
20Vdc
R 2

R 3

10

16
V2
12Vdc

R 4
6
R 5

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R 8

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14
8

V3

R 6
12

40Vdc
R 7

12

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Most of the materials came from Palm IIIs book MATLAB.

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