Les Beckham

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Many years developing flight control algorithms and software

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C++, C, C#, MATLAB, Assembly

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How to identify strings that can be converted to float numbers in a cell array?
I would suggest using readtable instead of readcell A = readcell('test6.xlsx') You can define the variable types so Matlab kno...

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How can I change the font size of a non-English text in a Word document?
You were very close. There was at least one typo (paranoid vs. paramod). See below wordapp=actxserver ('word.application'); ...

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This erro occurred while cheking the code - "invalid use of operator"
This line is not valid Matlab syntax and was causing your error message mat-file "input_file.m" Maybe this is what you are try...

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remove non-unique columns even if the sign has changed
Perhaps this? load newca.mat [~, icol, ~] = unique(abs(newca1).', 'rows', 'stable') mlag = newca1(:,icol)

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Stoping / breaking ginput (or ginput(n)) before entrering any value / clicking any single time
Ctrl-C will abort ginput (though it does throw an error).

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Why trapz is giving me negative area?
I get a positive value for the area. load power.mat load frequency.mat plot(freq, power) grid on area = trapz(freq, power) ...

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how to have a matlab script give you a choice to automatically open other scripts
That seems like a questionable workflow. Nevertheless, this should get you started. % StartingScript.m response = questdlg('O...

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I need to correct the script for coloring map
You need to reexamine the logic you are using to determine the masks. All three masks are all zero, thus no coloring. % clc; ...

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2D matrix resize or interpolation
For Q1, I would suggest imresize. Can you clarify what you mean by "offset x,y values" in Q2?

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How to rotate rectangular with a an angle?
Perhaps this is what you are trying to do. The hgtransform and makehgtransform functions are designed for transforming graphics...

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Counting the occurrences of a digit in a book
The printer has printed a book with 'p' pages. How many times did they use the character 'd'? In other words, how many times doe...

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An Ohm's Law Calculator
*BACKGROUND / MOTIVATION:* Many important observations in math and science can be described by short, but powerful, equations...

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How long do each of the stages of the rocket take to burn?
A space rocket has 3 stages: - stage 1, s1; - stage 2, s2; - stage 3, s3. If s1 burns 3 x as long as s2 which burns ...

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Remove all the words that end with "ain"
Given the string s1, return the string s2 with the target characters removed. For example, given s1 = 'the main event' your ...

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Instructions Following
Complete the function follow(s) which, for a given string (containing only the letters 'f', 'b', 'l', 'r'), calculates the final...

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plot the shielding effectiveness
You haven't really asked a question. If you just want a plot of the data pasted into your "question", here you go. data = ... ...

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How to force a (small) gap on axis
You can use the axis command to specify some padding around the data plot(-1:0.1:1) grid on plot(-1:0.1:1) axis padded gr...

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How to load a function to use in Matlab? In this case the DiskMargin function.
diskmargin is a function in the Robust Control Toolbox. You will need to install that toolbox. Also, that function was added t...

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code to tell mlx or m files
If you want your function to know if it was called from a .m file or a .mlx file you can do that using dbstack. However, I'm no...

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Read and process a Fortran90 binary file
In light of the additional variable size information and sample file provided by the OP, and the information from Walter about F...

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Read and process a Fortran90 binary file
It would help to have a sample file to experiment with. Nevertheless, assuming that the write call that you have shown is the o...

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Ramp function with steady-state
Maybe something like this using lsim? t = 0:0.01:30; u = 3*t; u(u > 30) = 30; sys = tf([1 0], [1 1]); % <<< s / (s+1) -- rep...

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How to adjust the decimal place in fprintf statement
Note that the Matlab function for printing to the command window is fprintf, not printf. Note also that it doesn't make sense t...

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Kalman Filter Velocity data looking too similar to position data
It appears that you aren't differentiating the position to get the velocity, you are just multiplying it by dt. Thus the two pl...

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anyone know how to open .dmi file
There are two issues. One is that your fread command is converting the int8 data to doubles when reading. The other is that th...

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How can I insert a variable into a plot legend, with a special character following the variable?
plot(magic(4)) M = 10.5; %<<< made up value for variable M legend('', '', '', sprintf('Gradient: %.1f\\circ/mm', M))

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Given an unsigned integer x, find the largest y by rearranging the bits in x
Given an unsigned integer x, find the largest y by rearranging the bits in x. Example: Input x = 10 Output y is 12 ...

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Calculate area of sector
A=function(r,seta) r is radius of sector, seta is angle of sector, and A is its area. Area of sector A is defined as 0.5*(r^2...

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Convert radians to degrees
Given input in radians, output to degrees

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Need to get matlab to display the continuous time transfer function
Please explain exactly what the problem is. You need the Control System toolbox, not the "command tool box", whatever that is. ...

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