Symbolic calculations in Matlab UMass Amherst（符号计算在Matlab马塞诸斯州大学阿默斯特学院）.pdfVIP

Symbolic calculations in Matlab: You must first give MATLAB a list of the variable and function names that will appear in the symbolic expressions you will be working with. Do this using the command syms syms x y z a; This command basically tells the software that you will be using the symbols x, y, z, and f in forthcoming symbolic expressions. One thing that is often useful is to define a function of the symbolic variables you have defined. Note that you do not need to define the function name using syms since MATLAB understands that when you define a function using symbolic variables you intend that function to be symbolic. An example function definition is f = x^2 + sin(y); If you would like to substitute numerical values into a symbolic function, use the function subs as in the following way subs(f,{x,y},{1,pi/2}); Doing symbolic calculus is one of the more useful things that MATLAB can do for us. To integrate a function, use int as follows int(f,x); to get the indefinite integral, or int(f,x,1,a); to get the definite integral from 1 to a. Note that the limits of integration can be either numeric or symbolic. To do double or triple integrals you need to manually use the int function multiple times. You similarly can differentiate functions, though you can take derivatives of order higher than one in a single step. For example, diff(f,x,2); is the second derivative of f with respect to x. Taking limits is also possible, using the function limit as follows limit(f,x,0); to take the limit of f as x goes to zero. Note that MATLAB recognizes inf as a symbolic representation infinity, which can be freely used in symbolic expres- sions. For example, if you want to take the limit as a variable approaches infinity you can use inf as the third input of limit. Solving systems of equations is a v