(Note to teachers: If you have a student who always gets the integral correct but shows no working and never includes the constant of integration – now you know why).
It misses off the constant of integration but this is the standard behaviour for almost all symbolic integrators and so isn’t anything to worry about. It even has the power to evaluate integrals symbolically – something that I wish I had access to when I was in high school. It will also give the answer to our first quadratic exactly – which is nice. With the symbolic toolbox, however, calculations such as this are trivial thanks to the solve command If, on the other hand, you wanted to solve the general quadratic a*x^2+b*x+c=0 in terms of a,b and c then you are out of luck using MATLAB on its own. The syntax may look at bit minging at first sight but it does the job and does it efficiently. For example, if you want to solve the quadratic equation x^2 -2*x -5=0 numerically then basic MATLAB can help you. The base MATLAB package is strictly numerical and has no support for the symbolic manipulation of equations. If you are new to MATLAB then maybe a quick explanation is in order here.
We use MATLAB to compute the inverse Laplace transform.Just over a couple of weeks ago, The Mathworks released the latest version of their main product, MATLAB 2008b, which includes a completely new version of their Symbolic Toolbox. Taking into account that and, and by transforming the expression ( 3), we obtainīy applying the inverse Laplace transform to ( 4), we can obtain as function of. By applying the Laplace transform to ( 2), we obtain Let us apply the Laplace transform to equation ( 2).
Let us assume that initial conditions are and. We perform the tests using the following differential equation
The approach that is used for comparison is based on the Laplace transform. The two approaches should produce results that match. The idea is to compare this approach with another approach for computing the analytical solution. The result is shown in the figure below.įinally, let us verify that this approach produces accurate results. First, we choose the plotting interval, and then similarly to the MATLAB function plot(), we can use the function to plot the solution.
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