Projects

Directions for the Projects

Staple all sheets of your projects together. Be sure to include your code/commands as well as your output.

Click here to see how to format the projects for submission.

Getting the Projects

To get the projects either follow this link Then follow the path: student resources / Matlab projects
Direct links to each project are also given below.

The projects will require you to use certain .m files. They can be found at the above link.

If you are using mathematica, you can open any .m file; however, the notation used will be different, so the commands will need to be converted to mathematica notation. Some of the converted data files can be found here.

due date	project	topic	book section	last day to submit
Aug 27	Project 1	Introduction to Matlab	n/a	Nov 12
Sept 10	Project 2	Interpolating Polynomials	sect 1.2	Nov 12
Sept 24	Project 3	Dominance Matrices	sect 2.1	Nov 26
Oct 22	Project 4	The Leontif Input-Output Model	sect 2.6	Nov 26
Nov 5	Project 5	Hill Substitution Ciphers	sect 4.1	Nov 26
Nov 19	Project 6	Error-Detecting and Error-Correcting Codes	sect 4.6	Dec 5
Dec 3	Project 7	The Fibonacci Sequence and Generalizations	sect 5.3	Dec 5

Accessing Matlab

Fretwell 319: A linux lab open MTWR 8am-8pm and F 8am-5pm. All machines have matlab installed on them.
A Mosaic Account: This is an option only if your major is in the College of Engineering.
Purchasing Matlab: The student version costs around $99, and the best places I've seen to buy it are from SIAM or JourneyEd.
Downloading Octave (ie: free version of Matlab): You find it by googling Octave (or GNU Octave). Source Forge is a good place to get it as is GNU.
Be sure to get both Octave and GUIOctave (if you want a graphical user interface).
For directions on how to install it, there is a decent wiki page.
You can also see the following link. Note, these last directions are old, so the version numbers it references are outdated.

LU Factorization using Matlab

If you want to use matlab for LU factorization, download the function LUfactorization.m To use this function:

open the .m file
copy and paste it into matlab (not the command window but into the editor
save it (when you hit save it will automatically save it as LUfactorization.m)
type in the matrix A you want to factor
type: [L,U]=LUfactorization(A)

To see how the function works, open the file and read the comments.