Staple all sheets of your projects together. Be sure to include all of the answers to the questions - think of these projects as reports where you need to analyze the given situation. If you want to include your matlab code, publish it. If you don't print it off to submit, be sure to publish the code to a pdf file. You can then include the entire project/report in the published file.
Click here to see how to publish in Matlab.
To get the projects either follow this link, and then follow the path: student resources / Matlab projects OR use the direct links to each project given below. The projects will require you to use certain .m files. They can be found at the above link.
Your author has some resources on the textbook's webpage that may help in learning new or useful matlab commands. You could think of these resources as little projects (or interactive tutorials) which discuss around 3 to 5 matlab commands each. In the file, you'll see syntax on how to type the code as well as a few examples.
To find these files, follow the link above. Choose student resources. Then select Applications by Chapter in the menu on the left. You should see a chart divided up by chapter. The files labeled Applications are projects just like the ones assigned in our class. In fact, our projects were chosen from his list. The additional resources mentioned are the files labeled MATLAB Program.
You do not have to use Matlab to complete the projects, often a handheld calculator will suffice. However, the projects will give you code in matlab, so it will make it easier to complete the projects if you use matlab. Also, there are a number of questions that will require you to use data that is too big for a calculator to handle. Any .m file can be opened in notepad. Then you can copy the data to whatever program you chose to use. Warning: if you use a program other than Matlab, you may need to convert the data into the another/appropriate form.
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. I converted the .m file for project 2 for you. It can be found here along with some details on how to convert matlab code over to mathematica code.
| due date | project | .m files | plaintext version of .m files | topic | book section | last day to submit |
| Jan 21 | Project 1 | n/a | n/a | An Introduction to Matlab | tutorial | n/a |
| Feb 18 | Project 2 | interpoly.m | interpoly | Interpolating Polynomials | sect 1.2 | n/a |
| Feb 25 | Project 3 | dominance.m | dominance | Dominance Matrices | sect 2.1 | n/a |
| Mar 25 | Project 4 | leontief.m | leontief | The Leontif Input-Output Model | sect 2.6 | n/a |
| Apr 8 | Project 5 | hillcipher.m | hillcipher | Hill Substitution Ciphers | sect 4.1 | n/a |
| Apr 22 | Project 6 | eccode.m | eccode | Error-Detecting and Error-Correcting Codes | sect 4.6 | n/a |
| May 6 | Project 7 | fibonacci.m | fibonacci | The Fibonacci Sequence and Generalizations | sect 5.3 | n/a |
| May 6 | Project 8 | traffic.m | traffic | Network Flow Problems | sect 1.6 | n/a |
If you want to use matlab for LU factorization, download the function LUfactorization.m To use this function: