User:Eml4500.f08.wiki.hood

Plan for EML 4500, Fall 2008:

Vision
Confidentiality
Method of Work
Old Approach

Vision

Learn new computer software (ie: Mediawiki, Wikipedia, Wikiversity)
Take advantage of free learning materials (MIT's Open Course Ware)
Collaboration between:
*Members of a team
*Teams in a class
*Professor and students in a class

Confidentiality

Wikipedia policies: Wikipedia username space pages are NOT Wikipedia articles
In order to collaborate with their group electronically, each student must create a username space, with the username in the following format: course#.semester.teamname.lastname

Old Approach

Previous course guidelines:

Used E-Learning
Grade breakdown:

–10% Homework
–30% Exam I
–30% Exam II
–30% Exam III
(Course can be changed back to the original set-up if desired by the majority of the class)

New Course Guidelines:

Use of Wikipedia instead of E-Learning. Example of a good Wikipedia article: "Stress (physics)" from Wikipedia
Homework/assignments done in teams

Matlab Primer

Command Line Editing

Code 1: m = 2; n = 3; x = 0:.01:2*pi; y = sin(m*x); z = cos(n*x); plot(x,y,x,z)
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Planar Plots

Code 1: x = -4:.01:4; y = sin(x); plot(x,y)
Display 1:
File:Planarplot1.jpg

Code 2: x = -1.5:.01:1.5; y = exp(-x.^2); plot(x,y)
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Code 3: --
Display 3:

Code 4: t = 0:.001:2*pi; x = cos(3*t); y = sin(2*t); plot(x,y)
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Code 5a: x = 0:.01:2*pi; y1 = sin(x); y2 = sin(2*x); y3 = sin(4*x); plot(x,y1,x,y2,x,y3)
Code 5b (uses matrix Y; produces same display): x = 0:.01:2*pi; Y=[sin(x)', sin(2*x)', sin(4*x)']; plot(x,Y)
Display 5:
File:Planarplot5a.jpg

Code 6: x = 0:.01:2*pi; y1 = sin(x); y2 = sin(2*x); y3 = sin(4*x); plot(x,y1,'--',x,y2,':',x,y3,'+')
Display 6:
(Same as 5 but with different line formats)

3D Line Plots

Code 1: t = .01:.01:20*pi; x = cos(t); y = sin(t); z = t.^3; plot3(x,y,z)
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3D Mesh and Surface Plots

Code 1: mesh(eye(10))
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Code 2: surf(eye(10))
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Code 3: xx = -2:.2:2; yy = xx; [x,y] = meshgrid(xx,yy); z = exp(-x.^2-y.^2); mesh(z)
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Code 4: xx = -2:.2:2; yy = xx; [x,y] = meshgrid(xx,yy); z = exp(-x.^2-y.^2); surf(z)
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