How can I plot the periodic function? please help
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how can I plot(t,Tg) or interpret Tg in t=(0:0.001:0.1n),n is a given positive integer ?
I had tried to modify the code in https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/163582-how-to-plot-a-piecewise-periodic-function-please-help
but it didn't work. plz help.
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mousa alsaeed
on 25 Nov 2019
here is a code for a function that can give you the plot for any periodic function first thing you need to define a variable t as symbolic variable
syms t
second thing define your function
f = log(t)-t
the function needs a period and a specific number of cycles to draw your function in
T = 3; , N = 10;
here is the code for the function :
% done by mousa alsaeed
% email : mousa276alsaeed98@gmail.com
function periodic(fun,period,number_of_cycles)
fp = 0;
syms t
for i=0:number_of_cycles-1
fp = fp + subs(fun,t,(t-i*period))*(heaviside(t-i*period)-heaviside(t-(i+1)*period));
end
fplot(fp,[0 number_of_cycles*period])
grid on
title('the periodic function')
xlabel('t')
set(gca,'XMinorTick','On','YMinorTick','On');
end
here is what you gonna write on the commmand window :
periodic(f,T,N)
and here is the results :

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Nabeel Bakr
on 21 Jul 2020
Edited: Nabeel Bakr
on 21 Jul 2020
Dear Mr. Mousa Alsaeed,
My B.Sc. students are doing their B.Sc. graduation project about Fourier series using Matlab platform.
We came across your nicely written Matlab code which plots any periodic function.
We would be grateful if you kindly send us a modified version of your code so that it can plot the functions starting from the negative side of x-axis (i.e. from -N/2*T to N/2*T).
We plotted the function y=x^2 (T=2) and (N=3) using different procedure. (An image is attached).
But we would like to try your code.
With our best regards.
Stay Safe.
mousa alsaeed
on 4 Aug 2020
sorry for the delay
same inputs as before and here is the new code that plots periodic function to be symmetric around the y-axis (i.e. starts from -N/2*T to N/2*T)
% done by mousa alsaeed
% email : mousa276alsaeed98@gmail.com
function periodic(fun,period,number_of_cycles)
fp = 0;
syms t
for i= -number_of_cycles/2 : number_of_cycles/2
fp = fp + subs(fun,t,(t-(2*i+1)*0.5*period))*(heaviside(t-i*period)-heaviside(t-(i+1)*period));
end
fplot(fp,[(-number_of_cycles/2)*period (number_of_cycles/2)*period])
grid on
title('the periodic function')
xlabel('t')
set(gca,'XMinorTick','On','YMinorTick','On');
end
here is the results

Nabeel Bakr
on 5 Aug 2020
Thank you very much for your help ... Regards
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