CL2014

MATLAB Programming
Lecture: 05

Course Instructor
Engr Muhammad Umar Khan Niazi
Office: C1-21, Ext.: 218, Email: umar.niazi@nu.edu.pk
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2 Plots in MATLAB

 Graphs (in 2-D) are drawn with the plot statement.

 In its simplest form, it takes a single vector argument as in plot(y).
 In this case the elements of y are plotted against their indexes, e.g.,
plot(rand(1, 20)) plots 20 random numbers against the integers
1–20, joining successive points with straight lines.
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 Probably the most common form of plot is plot(x, y) where x and y are
vectors of the same length, e.g.,

x = 0:pi/40:4*pi;
plot(x, sin(x))
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 MATLAB has a set of ‘easy-to-use’ plotting commands, all starting with

the string ‘ez’. The easy-to-use form of plot is ezplot, e.g.,
ezplot(’tan(x)’)
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 MATLAB has a set of ‘easy-to-use’ plotting commands, all starting with

the string ‘ez’. The easy-to-use form of plot is ezplot, e.g.,
ezplot(’tan(x)’)
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 Graphs may be labeled with the following statements:

gtext(’text’)
 Writes a string (’text’) in the graph window. gtext puts a cross-hair in
the graph window and waits for a mouse button or keyboard key to be
pressed. The cross-hair can be positioned with the mouse or the arrow
keys. For example,
gtext( ’X marks the spot’ )
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 Grid adds/removes grid lines to/from the current graph. The grid state
may be toggled
 text(x, y, ’text’) writes text in the graphics window at the
point specified by x and y. If x and y are vectors, the text is written at
each point.
 title(’text’) writes the text as a title on top of the graph.
 xlabel(’horizontal’) labels the x-axis.
 ylabel(’vertical’) labels the y-axis
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 To plot x against y

x 1 2 3 5 7 7.5 8 10

y 2 6.5 7 7 5.5 4 6 8

>> x=[1 2 3 5 7 7.5 8 10];

>> y=[2 6.5 7 7 5.5 4 6 8];
>> plot(x,y)

Once the plot command is executed, the Figure Window opens with the
following plot.
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Line specifiers can be added in the plot command to:
 Specify the style of the line.
 Specify the color of the line.
 Specify the type of the markers (if markers are desired).

plot(x,y,’line specifiers’)
Line Specifier Line Specifier Marker Specifier
Style Color Type

Solid - red r plus sign +

dotted : green g circle o
dashed -- blue b asterisk *
dash-dot -. Cyan c point .
magenta m square s
yellow y diamond d
black k
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Year 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994

Sales (M) 127 130 136 145 158 178 211

>> year = [1988:1:1994];

>> sales = [127, 130, 136, 145, 158, 178, 211];
>> plot(year,sales,'--r*')
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x = -pi:pi/10:pi;
y = tan(sin(x)) - sin(tan(x));

figure
plot(x,y,'--
gs','LineWidth',2,'MarkerSize',10,'MarkerEdgeColor','b','MarkerFace
Color',[0.5,0.5,0.5])
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subplot(2,2,1)
x = linspace(0,10);
y1 = sin(x);
plot(x,y1)
title('Subplot 1: sin(x)')

subplot(2,2,2)
y2 = sin(2*x);
plot(x,y2)
title('Subplot 2: sin(2x)')

subplot(2,2,3)
y3 = sin(4*x);
plot(x,y3)
title('Subplot 3: sin(4x)')

subplot(2,2,4)
y4 = sin(8*x);
plot(x,y4)
title('Subplot 4: sin(8x)')