ENGFF012

Computer Methods

April intake 2017

Mid-term test (30%)

Name: __________________________________________________

Student ID: ______________________________________________

Group: _____________ (X or Y)

Instructions:

a. Answer all questions in Section A and B.

b. Calculator is allowed in this examination.
c. Write your answers properly and clearly.
d. Any code or command shown in the questions is MATLAB code.

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 Section A [10 marks]
Instruction: Choose the single most appropriate answer for each question.

Question 1
The _____ command is used to clear variables in the workspace.
a. clear c. clc
b. delete d. control+C Answer: ____a_____

Question 2
The _____ command is used to swap the rows and columns of matrix A.
a. A' c. inv(A)
b. AT d. swap(A) Answer: ____a_____

Question 3
The matrix operation X/Y is equivalent to _____.
a. Element-by-element division of X and Y: X(i,j)/Y(i,j)
b. Element-by-element division of X and Y: Y(i,j)/X(i,j)
c. inv(X)*Y
d. X*inv(Y) Answer: ___d_____

Question 4
Format style changes the output display format in the Command Window to the
format specified by style. _____ resets the output format to the default.
i. format iii. format short
ii. format bank iv. format long

a. iii and iv c. i and iii

b. i and ii d. ii and iv Answer: ____c_____

Question 5
MATLAB can be used as a calculator to perform mathematical calculations. What
is the precedence of arithmetic operators?
i. Additions and subtractions iii. Multiplications and divisions
ii. Exponentials iv. Parentheses

a. i, ii, iii and iv c. iv, ii, iii and i

b. iv, ii, i and iii d. iv, iii, ii and i Answer: ____c_____

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 Section B [50 marks]
Instruction: Answer ALL questions in this section.

Question 1 [10 marks]

Determine whether the following variable names are valid or not. Indicate Yes
or No.

Variable Name Variable Name Valid?

Happy Birthday No
If No
Surname Yes
Name1 Yes
1stName No
One% No
_my_name No
first_name Yes
format20 Yes
Happy_2_birthday Yes

Question 2 [10 marks]

1 2
a. Matrix A=[ ].
2 0
i. Explain whether A*A and A.*A are equivalent [2 marks]
No. A*A a matrix operation. A.*A is an array operation.
ii. Explain whether A^2 and A.^2 are equivalent [2 marks]
𝟓 𝟐 𝟏 𝟒
No. A^2=A*A=[ ] but A.^2=[ ]
𝟐 𝟒 𝟒 𝟎
b. Initialize the following arrays using the shortcut notation (e.g. colon
operator). [4 marks]
i. Generate a column vector containing the value 2, 7, 12, 17… 117.

A=[2:5:117]'

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 ii. Generate a row vector containing the value -0.0035, -0.0021, -0.0007,
0.007, 0.0021…0.0063.
B=-0.0035:0.0014:0.0063
c. What is the value of x and y if [x,y]=min([3 40 -4 6 9 10]) ? [2 marks]
X=-4,y=3

Question 3 [10 marks]

a. Write a script file to calculate the area of a regular hexagon as shown

above. We can calculate the area of a regular hexagon using the following
formula. [5 marks]

3√3 2
𝐴= 𝑠
2
s=7

Note: Write MATLAB commands to solve this problem.

Ans:

s=7;
A=(3*sqrt(3))/2*s^2
%A=(3*3^(1/2))/2*s^2

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b. Plot the function y  x 3 log10 x  x 5 for values of x between 0 and 100.

[5 marks]

Answer:

x = 0:1:100;

y=x.^3.*log10(x)+x.^(3/5);

plot(x,y);

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Question 4 [10 marks]

Assume that A and B are defined as follows:

4 7 3 1 0 0
𝐴 = [5 8 1] , 𝐵 = [ 0 2 0]
1 6 2 0 0 3

What is the answer of the following expressions? (Show the final output).

a. A' b. A.^2
4 5 1 16 49 9
[ 7 8 6] [25 64 1]
3 1 2 1 36 4

c. A+B d. B./A
5 7 3
0.25 0 0
[5 10 1] [ 0 0.25 0 ]
1 6 5
0 0 1.5
a. 2*B-1
1 −1 −1
[−1 3 −1]
−1 −1 5

Question 5 (10 marks)

Write MATLAB commands to perform the following operations.

8 6 2 1 3 8
𝐴=[ 7 8 6 ],𝐵 = [ 6 1 3 ]
2 7 8 8 6 1
7 6
a. Replace the submatrix [ ] in matrix A by the corresponding submatrix
2 8
in B. You are not allowed to key in each of the elements directly. [2 marks]
A(2:3,1:2:3)=B(2:3,1:2:3)

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b. The matrix X and Y shown below are made by using the matrices B, the
identity, “ones” and “zeros” matrices. Create matrix X, Y and Z without
keying each of the elements directly. [9 marks]
1 3 8 0 0 1 1 1 1
6 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1
𝑋= 8 6 1 0 0 , 𝑌 = [0 3 0] , 𝑍 = 1 1 6 8
0 0 0 1 0 0 8 0 1 3 1 6
[0 0 0 0 1] [1 8 3 1]

X=eye(5)

X(1:3,1:3)=B

Y=zeros(3)

Y(:,2)=B(1,:)’

Z=ones(5,4)

Z(3:5,2:4)=B’

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