Vladimir Sovkov

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St. Petersburg State University

80 total contributions since 2014

Professional Interests: computational physics, applied mathematics

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How to plot step functions in Matlab
syms x; y=piecewise(x<0,0, 0<=x<2*pi,exp(-x).*cos(x), x>=2*pi,2*exp(-x).*cos(x)); t=linspace(-pi,4*pi,1000); plot(t,subs(y,x,...

30 days ago | 0

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Adding or subtracting the same number
n=4; % array length x=zeros(1,n); % sample array d=0.4; % value to be added/subtracted k=rand(1,n); % uniformly random number...

30 days ago | 1

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How to plot complicated exponential function 4.82 (1 + 0.35 e^ −4.07t ) / (1 − 0.35 e^−4.07t) on matlab
Use the element-wise division when computing y: y = ((4.8184) * (1 + 0.3497.*exp(-4.0719.*x))) ./ (1 - 0.3497.*exp(-4.0719.*x))...

1 month ago | 1

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make different numbers with the same digits
x=1342; y=str2num(sort(num2str(x),'ascend')); % smaller z=str2num(sort(num2str(x),'descend')); % bigger

1 month ago | 0

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is it possible to write a code that examine and analyze that a data in vector having 100 values, so recognize that if one or two very high as compare to other data?
This is known as the problem of locating outliers. Various approaches were proposed. E.g., the one based on the median absolute ...

2 months ago | 0

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flip the sign at zero crossing point
Data1 = [1,0,1,1,0,1,1,0,0,1,0,1,0]; k=find(~Data1); if ~isempty(k) if k(end)<numel(Data1) k(end+1)=numel(Data1)...

2 months ago | 0

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Issue with 'for' loop - trying to iterate through and change certain values to 0 in array
If the equality must be exact, just x_results(x_results==.3095)=0; and nothing else (sometimes can produce an incorrect result...

3 months ago | 0

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How can I create a script that calculates this combinatorial?
C=nchoosek(n,r)

3 months ago | 0

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Specify eigenvector for eigs
Matlab documentation: 'StartVector' — Initial starting vector random vector (default) | vector Initial starting vector, spe...

3 months ago | 0

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How to "wrap text" on pushbutton string?
Use the cell array with entries containing text fragments to be shown in separate strings.

3 months ago | 0

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how to implement the algorithm for approximating Cosine using the Taylor series
syms theta n=4; taylor(cos(theta),'Order',n)

4 months ago | 0

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aux2bib
BibTex (LaTeX) sublibrary from an AUX file

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Is there any way to accelerate the solving of a series of large sparse positive definite linear equations "Ax=b" with same "A" and different "b"?
It depends... Besides inv(A), you can try A\eye(n), pinv(A)--all of them are equivalent for a well-conditioned A and different ...

4 months ago | 0

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Is there any method to calculate the inverse of matrix which changed a few values?
I am not sure how much profitable it is numerically, but the Sherman Morrison theorem can be a way, see https://en.wikipedia.org...

4 months ago | 1

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What does ''all'' mean in M = min(A, []. ''all'') ?
All this is fairly well described in the matlab documentation. min(min(A)) and min(A, [], ''all'') are equivalent for 1D and 2D ...

4 months ago | 0

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If I have multiple function, then how can I get the function of min(fun1,fun2,fun3,...)?
xmin=min([R1(x(:)');R2(x(:)');...]); % to get a correct result, the argument must be a row-vector: x(:)' turns any input array t...

4 months ago | 0

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Is there a bug in the if function
This is not a bug in the if function but an artefact of the rounding of the matlab bit-wise arithmetics. To avoid this effect, s...

4 months ago | 0

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Angle between two lines in frontal plane
If, as it looks in the figure, (...Y) are the verticle coordinates and (...Z) are the horizontal coordinates, then the basic geo...

4 months ago | 1

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solve function give a wrong solution
syms x solv = double(solve( (1+x/12)^12 == 1.02)) There are many solutions. The one you are interested in is rather 0.01981897...

4 months ago | 0

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How to see the current value of the variable in "fminsearch" optimization?
optimset('Display','iter'); From Matlab documentation: 'Display' — Level of display 'notify' (default) | 'final' | 'off' | 'n...

4 months ago | 0

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showing the distance between the two plots on two curves at regular intervals on the same plot
t=0:0.2:10; % avoid loops wherenever possible, use element-wise operations instead x=t.^2; y=0.5*x+10; % the same as "y=0.5*t...

5 months ago | 0

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Writing into .txt file
T = [v angle_random]; % this is if you want a 2-column file save('random_cylind.txt','T','-ascii','-double'); % explore availab...

5 months ago | 0

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Debugging using external editor
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_external/debugging-on-microsoft-windows-platforms.html

5 months ago | 0

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aux2bib
BibTex sublibrary from a LaTeX AUX file

5 months ago | 0 downloads |

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How do I record the location of a specific value in a set of data?
a=[0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0]; k=find(a==1,1)

6 months ago | 0

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How to Convert 3d matrix to row matrix???
a=rand(2,2,2) % a sample 3D matrix a b=a(:)' % is turned to the 1D row matrix b

8 months ago | 2

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Plot the trapeoidal waveform using given equations
syms theta y=piecewise(... 0<=theta<2*pi/3,1,... 2*pi/3<=theta<pi,(1-6/pi*(theta-2*pi/3)),... pi<=theta<5*pi/3,-...

9 months ago | 0

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How to draw an ellipse
The code discussed at https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/497966-how-to-find-the-vertical-height-of-an-ellipse-y-axi...

10 months ago | 0

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Eigenvalues corresponds to eigenvectors
Absolutely standard: L(k,k) ~ V(:,k). You can check it with the code: for k=1:size(h,1) disp(strcat('k=',num2str(k),'; h*v-la...

10 months ago | 0

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Subs Command for Multivariable Function
If e^ is the exponent and if you want to estimate the result numerically (from the question it is not quite clear what you want)...

10 months ago | 0