How to plot signal with unit step?

I want to plot the following signal in matlab but I am not sure how to do this with the unit step response involved.
x[n] = ((4/5)^n)u[n]
-5 < n < 20

 Accepted Answer

You can use heaviside function:
n = -5:1:20;
x = ((4/5).^n).*heaviside(n);
stem(n,x)
Bet be aware heaviside(0)=0.5

3 Comments

excellent. Thank You. I was missing '.' before * so was getting an error.
you can also use this if you want to have u[0]=0:
n = -5:1:20;
myStep = @(n) (n>0);
x = ((4/5).^n).*myStep(n);
stem(n,x)
My Pleasure...

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More Answers (2)

Kamalika Saha
Kamalika Saha on 5 Jan 2022
n = -5:1:20;
x = ((4/5).^n).*heaviside(n);
stem(n,x)
Divine
Divine on 3 Nov 2023
n = -5:1:20;
x = ((4/5).^n).*heaviside(n);
stem(n,x)

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