Trying to plot a periodic function
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Not sure how to fix this error please assist
t=0:0.1:1000
ao=0.504
for n=1:1000
an=0.504*(2/(1+16*(n^2)));
bn=0.504*((8*n)/(1+16*(n^2)));
f(t)=ao + (an*cos(2*n*t))+(bn*sin(2*n*t))
end
plot(t,f(t));
here is my error
Subscript indices must either be real positive integers or logicals.
Error in asda (line 6)
f(t)=ao + (an*cos(2*n*t))+(bn*sin(2*n*t))
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Star Strider
on 12 Apr 2018
First, MATLAB requires that subscripts (and indices) be integers greater than zero, so using ‘t’ as an index variable will not work.
Second, your ‘f’ calculation is vectorised at each iteration, producing a (1x10001) row vector. If you want to calculate and store all of them for each iteration of ‘n’, you have to account for that in your indexing.
Try this:
f(n,:)=ao + (an*cos(2*n*t))+(bn*sin(2*n*t));
with the plot call then being simply:
plot(t,f)
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Star Strider
on 12 Apr 2018
You did not define ‘t’ correctly.
Try this:
t = linspace(0, pi, 250);
as well as my earlier suggestions. You might want to extend ‘t’ for a few cycles to see that the waveform repeats periodically, as it should. I will let you experiment with that.
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