Paulo Silva
995 total contributions since 2010
Just done my Masters degree in Control and Industrial Electronics, I also have one licenciates degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
I love to use MATLAB and to help others using it, everyday I learn something new.
Currently teaching and supporting students with several projects that use MATLAB for Biomedical Imaging.
Please don't send me emails asking for code or help, I will only help the best I can here at MATLAB Answers.
Professional Interests: Control engineering, biking, growing organic food, permaculture student (nature is my teacher)
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Exponential transfer function
<http://www.mathworks.com/help/control/ug/models-with-time-delays.html Models with time delays>
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Looking for example code for Minimum Variance Control Systems
<http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Controlled-Systems-Theory-Electrical-Engineering/dp/0486486133/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=14...
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Getappdata and setappdata
<http://blogs.mathworks.com/videos/2011/11/23/passing-data-between-guide-callbacks-without-globals-in-matlab/ Passing data betwe...
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Sum all integers from 1 to 2^n
Given the number x, y must be the summation of all integers from 1 to 2^x. For instance if x=2 then y must be 1+2+3+4=10.
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Find the numeric mean of the prime numbers in a matrix.
There will always be at least one prime in the matrix. Example: Input in = [ 8 3 5 9 ] Output out is 4...
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Make a checkerboard matrix
Given an integer n, make an n-by-n matrix made up of alternating ones and zeros as shown below. The a(1,1) should be 1. Example...
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Pizza!
Given a circular pizza with radius _z_ and thickness _a_, return the pizza's volume. [ _z_ is first input argument.] Non-scor...
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Remove the vowels
Remove all the vowels in the given phrase. Example: Input s1 = 'Jack and Jill went up the hill' Output s2 is 'Jck nd Jll wn...
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Reverse the vector
Reverse the vector elements. Example: Input x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] Output y = [9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1]
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Triangle Numbers
Triangle numbers are the sums of successive integers. So 6 is a triangle number because 6 = 1 + 2 + 3 which can be displa...
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Column Removal
Remove the nth column from input matrix A and return the resulting matrix in output B. So if A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6]; and ...
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Return the 3n+1 sequence for n
A Collatz sequence is the sequence where, for a given number n, the next number in the sequence is either n/2 if the number is e...
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Weighted average
Given two lists of numbers, determine the weighted average. Example [1 2 3] and [10 15 20] should result in 33.333...
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Swap the first and last columns
Flip the outermost columns of matrix A, so that the first column becomes the last and the last column becomes the first. All oth...
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Find the sum of all the numbers of the input vector
Find the sum of all the numbers of the input vector x. Examples: Input x = [1 2 3 5] Output y is 11 Input x ...
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Determine if input is odd
Given the input n, return true if n is odd or false if n is even.
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Who Has the Most Change?
You have a matrix for which each row is a person and the columns represent the number of quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies t...
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Summing digits
Given n, find the sum of the digits that make up 2^n. Example: Input n = 7 Output b = 11 since 2^7 = 128, and 1 + ...
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Select every other element of a vector
Write a function which returns every other element of the vector passed in. That is, it returns the all odd-numbered elements, s...
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Most nonzero elements in row
Given the matrix a, return the index r of the row with the most nonzero elements. Assume there will always be exactly one row th...
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Remove any row in which a NaN appears
Given the matrix A, return B in which all the rows that have one or more <http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/nan.html NaN...
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Times 2 - START HERE
Try out this test problem first. Given the variable x as your input, multiply it by two and put the result in y. Examples:...
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Find all elements less than 0 or greater than 10 and replace them with NaN
Given an input vector x, find all elements of x less than 0 or greater than 10 and replace them with NaN. Example: Input ...
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Make the vector [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]
In MATLAB, you create a vector by enclosing the elements in square brackets like so: x = [1 2 3 4] Commas are optional, s...
6 years ago
Draw polar curves
t=0:0.01:2*pi; polar(t,abs(sin(t/2).*cos(t/2)));
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Simulink bit operations
[1 0]------>Gain(-1)----->[-1 0] Use the Gain block and define that gain as -1
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Generate Square Wave
Here's my crazy way to do it, I'm assuming some values for example the sampling time. This way doesn't require any toolboxes, an...
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