Roman Kogan - Texas A&M University

Announcements

2015/12/21 The solutions to the last lab were posted. Thank you for the useful feedback and a great semester! -Roman, your TA.
2015/12/08 The semester is over! Please fill out the Post-Semester MATLAB survey and Course Evaluations.
The first will, hopefully, help change the way MATLAB is being taught here. And the second has a direct impact on your TA :)
2015/12/05 (retrospective update) Quizzes 1-10 are posted, as well as solutions to Matlab assignments 1-4.
2015/10/16 Quizzes 1-5 and their solutions have been posted.
2015/10/15 Assignment 3, first draft has been posted, along with solutions to Assignment 2.
2015/10/02 Assignment 2 has been updated, and now has Extra credit(1/2 lab) and Extra Extra Credit(1/4 lab) parts.
2015/09/29 Assignment 2 has been clarified, and directions were posted.
2015/09/28 Solutions to MATLAB Assignment 1 have been posted.
2015/09/11 MATLAB Assignment 1 has been updated - see below. Directions were posted. Example1.m is now posted, and contains all the commands you need to know so far.
2015/09/03 MATLAB symbolic & numeric computation examples posted. See the no_magic_example.m for an intro on how to do computer math without magic.
2015/09/03 Welcome to the Fall 2015 Calculus II Honors! Let the fun begin :)

Assignment5.zip	SOLUTIONS Directions taylor_example.m Extra Credit: For extra credit worth 1/2 lab, do the following: Write a function that, given two polynomials as lists of coefficients, computes their product; Write a test for this function (using polynomials that you can multiply by hand); Write a test that computes the 7'th degree Taylor polynomial for f(x)=sin(x)cos(x) in two ways: First, by using your taylor_poly method on sin(x)cos(x); And secondly, by calling it on sin(x) and cos(x) separately and then using your polynomial multiplication function to get the polynomial. Compare the results.
Assignment4.m	Solutions
Assignment3.m	Matlab 3 handout (now complete!) Directions Solutions
Assignment2.m segment.m	Directions Solution: Solution + Output
Assignment1.m	Directions Solution: Solution + Output M-File

Useful in class:

Example1.m	All you need to know for Assignment 1.
no_magic_example.m	Integration, differentiation and zero finding using only the most basic numeric tools with MATLAB.

Neat examples:

sierp.m	Draws the Sierpinski triangle
sierp_better.m	Draws the Sierpinski triangle in even a simpler way
dragon.m	Draws the Dragon curve
mandelbrot.m	Draws the Mandelbrot fractal
game_of_life.m	Plays Conway's game of Life
anim_simple_graph.m	A simple neat, animated graph.
hor_cycloida.m	Animates a rolling circle tracing a cycloida.
cycloida_anim.m	Animates a circular hypocycloid curve.
a_3D_curve_plot_anim.m	Draws an animated curve in 3-dimensional space
a_3D_surf_plot_anim.m	Draws an animated surface plot
rand_walk.m	Animated random walk on a plane.
approximate_pi.m	Approximate Pi with square roots
circ_anim.m	Animated rotating circles
nested_circles.m	Pretty nested circles
pretty.m	Pretty colors

You can download these examples as one zip file.

Professor's course webpage
MATH 152 Common course page
TAMU Calclabs
MATLAB alternatives:
- Scilab is free open-source, runs on Windows, and has very similar syntax;
- SAGE is free open-source, uses Python syntax, and can be run from your browser (no installation).
- SciPy is a set of libraries for scientific computing with Python. Windows download here.