‘Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists’ 7e
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Quiz questions for Chapter 1, Lecture 1.
The correct answer is highlighted.
1. Create two variab
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‘Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists’ 7e
© 2019 Daniel Valentine. All rights reserved. Published by Elsevier.
Quiz questions for Chapter 1, Lecture 1.
The correct answer is highlighted.
1. Create two variables by assigning 4 and 5 to x and y. Assign the value of x + y to
the variable z. What two statements do this correctly?
a. 4 = x; 5 = y; x+y = z
b. x = 4; y = 5; z = x+y
c. x = 4; 5 = y; z = x+y
2. To convert angles in radians to angles in degrees, which factor do you need to
multiply radians to covert to degrees correctly?
a. 2*pi/360
b. 360/(2*pi)
c. 180/(2*pi)
3. Consider the row of numbers generated by the command
>> x = 1:1:11; % How many numbers are in the list?
a. 10
b. 12
c. 11
4. Consider the row of numbers generated by the command
>> x = 1:2:11; % How many numbers are in the list?
a. 5
b. 6
c. 7
5. Plot the sine of x from 0 to pi. To do this, which command do you enter?
a. x = 0:2*pi/100:2*pi; plot(x,sin(x))
b. x = 0:2*pi/100:pi; plot(x,sin(x))
c. x = pi:2*pi/100:2*pi; plot(x,sin(x))‘Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists’ 7e
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Quiz questions for Chapter 2, Lecture 2.
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1. Which of the following names are valid, variable names?
a. pay-plan
b. 22d
c. watt
2. Does MATLAB recognize the difference between a and A?
a. Yes
b. No
3. If you clear and assign the variables as shown and then execute who, what
variables are in the work space?
>> clear; a = 5; Bab = 3;
a. a ans Bab
b. a Bab
c. A Bab
4. Create an array by executing the following command:
>> A = [ [1;2;3] , [4;5;6] , [7;8;9]]
>> A(2) % is equal to what number in the array?
a. 4
b. 2
c. 5
5. Consider the array created by the following command:
>> A = [ [1;2;3] , [4;5;6] , [7;8;9]]
>> A = A'
>> A(2) % is equal to what number in the array?
a. 4
b. 2
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Quiz questions 3:
The correct answer is in bold.
1. The Command Window is the MATLAB window where we enter commands.
True or False
2. Which of the following windows displays previous commands you have entered?
Command Window
History Window
Old Commands Window
Command History Window
Entered Commands Window
3. The file type that we save MATLAB programs in is called a:
Function file
M-file
Code file
Doc-file
X-file
4. The result of two-hundred-eighty-three times pi divided by seven is (using MATLAB):
40.0000
0.0777
630.5719
127.0101
3.14156
5. The clc command exits MATLAB. True or False
6. MATLAB automatically puts comments in our code when we create a code and save it in
an M-File. True or False
7. Which of the following characters is used by MATLAB to perform multiplication?
~
* Æ This is the correct answer.
+
%
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Quiz questions 4:
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1. A scalar is a 2-by-2 array. True or False
2. Vectors are 1-by-n or n-by-1 arrays. True or False
3. A matrix is an m-by-n array, where m and n are integers. True or False
4. To multiply 2 arrays element-by-element, what operator must you use?
+
*
.* Æ This is correct answer
./
-
5. When you create (or assign) arrays, a comma separates the columns in each row and a
semicolon denotes the start if the next row. True or False
6. Which of the following are valid variable names:
PLANCKSCONSTANT
_age
3rdJuniper
first_circle
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Quiz questions 5:
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1. If
a =
1 2 3
4 5 6
then which of the following is the result of a' ?Which of the following is the result of a' ?
6 5 4
3 2 1
6 5
4 3
2 1
1 4 Correct answer.
2 5
3 6
4 1
5 2
6 3
2. If
a =
1 2 3
4 5 6
then what command extracts the second column of matrix a?
a(:,2)
a(3,2)
a(2,:)
a(;,2)
a(end,:)
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3. If
a =
1 2 3
4 5 6
then what is the result of the command a(2,1)? Answer is 4.
4. When multiplying matrices element-by-element, a dot-operator must be used. True or False
5. Is there a dot-operator for the addition of arrays element-by-element? Yes or No
6. When dividing matrices element-by-element, a dot-operator must be used. True or False‘Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists’ 7e
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Quiz questions 6:
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1. For x = Acos(wt), when A = 4 cm, w = 0.6 rad/sec and t = 3sec, what is x
-0.9088 cm
-0.2272 cm
0.2272 cm
3.8954 cm
2.6413 cm
2. What is the square root of 338 (to 4 decimal places)? Answer is 18.3848
3. What does the command [a, b] = max(x) do?
Finds the maximum value in vectors a and b.
Finds the maximum value and its position in vector x.
Finds the position of the maximum value in vectors a and b.
Finds the maximum value and minimum value.
Forms an a by b matrix of maximum values.
4. Compute the sum of the terms in the vector F, where
F = [56, 46, 36, 44, 76, 60, 39, 33, 39, 44, 36, 42, 15, 24,100,
144, 45, 34, 33, 23, 47, 59, 47, 33, 54,209, 39, 56, 43, 22, 37,
55]
Answer in 1670.
5. Find the product of the elements in vector R, then divide it by 500, where
R = [0.06, 0.4, 36, 4.4, 0.6, 6.0, 3.9, 0.033, 3.9, 4.4, 3.6, 42,
1.5, 0.024, 1, 0.4, 4.5, 4, 0.33, 0.23, 0.47, 5.9, 7, 33, 2.9,
0.9, 0.56, 0.03, 0.22]
Answer is 1.1111
6. Find the standard deviation of F, where
F = [56, 46, 36, 44, 76, 60, 39, 33, 39, 44, 36, 42, 15, 24, 100,
144, 45, 34, 33, 23, 47, 59, 47, 33, 54, 209, 39, 56, 43, 22, 37,
55]
Answer is 37.3038
7. What is the tangent of 16 degrees? Answer is 0.2867‘Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists’ 7e
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Quiz questions 7:
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1. Which one of the following commands is used to read data from a Microsoft Excel file named
‘spreadsheet’?
xlsread('spreadsheet')
readexcel('spreadsheet')
readxls('spreadsheet')
excelread('spreadsheet')
2. Is there an error in the following list of commands?
x = 1;
y = 3;
z = 5;
w = log(z - x*y)
Yes or No
3. The following command has what kind of error?
Syntax
Run-time
Logical
There is no error in this line of code.
4. The following commands contain a logical error.
% Calculate square root of x
square_root = x.^2;
True or False
5. The following command extracts data from the text file ‘data.txt’.
uiimport(‘data.txt.’)
True or False
6. Which of the following command lines loads the data from ‘test.mat’ into the MATLAB
workspace?
open test.mat
read test.mat
load test.mat
loadfile test.mat‘Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists’ 7e
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Quiz questions 8:
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1. Which of the following blocks of code does not plot y=10x^2 and y = x^3 on the same figure?
plot(x, 10.^2, x, x.^3);
hold on;
plot(x, 10*x.^2);
plot(x, x.^3);
hold off;
figure (1)
plot( x, 10*x.^2);
figure(2)
plot(x, x.^3);
figure(1)
plot(x, 10*x.^2, x, x.^3);
2. Which of the following lines of code plots y versus x with a red line?
plot('r', x, y);
plot(x, 'r', y);
plot(x, y, 'r');
plot(y, x, 'r');
3. Which of the following commands plots y = x^5 with a dashed line, triangle right markers, and in
green?
plot(x, x.^5, '-->g');
plot(x, x.^5, 'drtg');
plot(x, x.^5, 'dash r-tri green');
plot(x, x.^5, '-g>');
4. The hold on command allows the user to plot more than one set of data on a single figure. True
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5. The following command does what?
plot(x, sin(x), 'yp')
Plots sin(x) vs. x with a yellow plus sign marker and no line
Plots sin(x) vs. x with yellow pentagram markers and no line
Plots x vs. sin(x) with yellow plus sign markers and no line
Plots x vs. sin(x) with yellow pentagram markers and no line
6. Which of the following sets of commands does not plot e^x and ln(x) on the same figure?
plot(x, exp(x));
hold on;
plot(x, log(x));
hold off;
plot(x, exp(x), x, log(x));
figure(1)
plot(x, exp(x));
figure(2)
plot(x, log(x));
figure(1)
plot(x, exp(x), x, log(x));
7. We can plot several curves on a single figure. True or False‘Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists’ 7e
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Quiz questions 9:
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1. Which one of the following commands plots a graph in the lower right corners of a 3 x 3 grid of graphs?
subplot(3,3,1)
subplot(3,3,3)
subplot(3,3,7)
subplot(3,3,9)
2. The command pie(z) creates a pie chart of z. True of False
3. The built-in command logxlogy creates a plot with logarithmic scaling on both the x and the y
axes. True or False
4. Which of the following commands plots r = sin(theta) in polar coordinates?
polar(theta,r);
polar(r,theta)
plot(theta,r)
plot(r,theta)
5. The polyfit function with degree 3 selected, produces a cubic model for the data
x =[1,4,6,9,11,14,15] ,
y = [-2,175,613,2110,3878,8045,9910].
It is given by the formula y = 3x^3 - x^2 + x - 5. True or False
6. To evaluate the function y = 3x^3 - x^2 + x – 5 over a range of x = 1:100, with coef = [3, -1, -5],
which command can you use?
polyval(coef, x)
model(coef, x)
polyfit(coef, x)
linereg(coef, x)
7. If coef=[3, 0, -1, 2, 7] , does polyfit(coef, x) return 3x.^5 - x.^3 + 2x.^2 + 7x? Yes or No‘Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists’ 7e
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Quiz questions 10:
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1. Given the function y = x * ln(x), compute the definite integral of this function from
x = 17 to x = 23. Hint: Try using sym2poly to get an exact number. Answer is 359.94.
2. Given the function y = x * ln(x), find its derivative with respect to x. What is it?
log(x) + 1
x * log(x)
log(x)
x / log(x)
3. Given the function y = x * ln(x), what is the value of y at x = 3.25?
2.67
3.27
3.83
4.32
4. Given the function y = x * ln(x), what is the root of y?
0
1
2
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Quiz questions 11:
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1. Any variable in the workspace can be accessed by a user-defined function. True or False
2. Which of the following is NOT a valid name for a function?
Poker
Blackjack
Solitare
52 Card Pickup
3. The first line of a function that takes as input mass and velocity and outputs kinetic energy would
resemble which of the following:
function energy = kinetic_energy(mass,velocity)
function[mass,velocity] = kinetic_energy(energy)
kinetic_energy = function(mass,velocity)
[mass,velocity] = function(kinetic_energy)
4. A function must return numerical output.True or False
5. Write a function that converts lengths from inches to centimeters. Programming question‘Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists’ 7e
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Quiz questions 12:
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1. In the command fprintf within the string statement what operator executes a linefeed?
\n
\l
\nl
\new
\new_line
2. To display formatted output in the command window, we used the plot command. True or False
3. Which one of the following is a valid placeholder in an fprintf statement
%d
%n
%p
%r
%v
4. The input command can only take text as input. True or False
5. Which of the following commands will ask the user to input a radius and store it in a variable
called radius?
input=radius('Enter a radius: ')
radius=('Enter a radius')
radius=input('Enter a radius')
input(radius)=('Enter a radius: ')
input=('Enter a radius: ')
6. Write a program to ask for a number and determine if the number is positive, negative, or neither.
7. Write a program to ask for input of a radiation level and determine if that radiation level is safe.
(A level less than 4 curies is safe.)‘Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists’ 7e
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Quiz questions 13:
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1. Consider the following assignment of variables:
a=3; b=4; c=true; d=1;
If the following commands are executed after the assignment of variables what are their truth
values? In other words are they True(1) or False(0)?
a. a|b % True or False
b. (a+b)< (b+a) % True or False
c. ~c&b % True or False
d. (b-a)==d % True or False
e. abs(b-a) == abs(a-b) % True or False
f. isnumeric(c) % True or False
g. isnumeric(d) % True or False
h. isempty(a) % True or False
i. c == d % True or False
j. (a|b)&c % True or False‘Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists’ 7e
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Quiz questions 14:
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1. Loops are MATLAB constructs that allow a set of commands to be executed multiple times.
True or False
2. A for loop repeats:
Forever
Until the user stops the loop
A set number of times known before the loop is executed
An unknown number of times
A set number of times unknown before the loop is executed
3. The vector may be used to increment a for loop by using the following construct:
first : increment : last
increment : first : last
last : increment : first
increment : last : first
first : last : increment
4. How many times will a for loop starting with for = 1:3:19 execute (or repeat)?
0
3
6
7
19
5. A for loop construct must end with an end statement. True or False
6. After the execution of the following loop, what will be the values of the elements of vector b?
a=[3 7 1 9 11];
for i=1:1:5
b(i)=a(i)^2 + i;
end
b=[10 51 4 85 126]
b=[9 49 1 81 121]
b=[3 7 1 9 11]
b=[1 2 3 4 5]
b=[4 9 4 13 16]‘Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists’ 7e
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Quiz questions 15:
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1) While loops repeat a block of commands as long as a logical expression is false. True or False
2) While loops can be used to ensure that the user inputs the proper type of data. True or False
3) Once the logical expression at the start of a while loop is false, the statements after the end
statement are executed. True or False
4) How many times will the following loop repeat?
i = 2; while i <= 16; i = i+2; end
0 times
2 times
8 times
16 times
infinite
5) The following loop will repeat until
while text(x); x = x+1; end
forever
until test(x) is false
until test(x) is true
0 times
It is impossible to tell.
6) The following loop will repeat how many times?
n = 1;
while n < 5
n = n - 1;
end
Pick an answer: 0, 1, 4, 5, or infinite.‘Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists’ 7e
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Quiz questions 16:
.
1. Write a program uses a loop to calculate the decibel level (dB) of power levels between 1 Watt
and 20 Watts in 0.5 Watt increments. Plot dB versus power using one of the semilog plot
commands. The equation needed is as follows:
dB = 10*log10(P2/P1)
where P2 is the measured power and P1 is a reference power of 1 Watt (in this problem).
2. Write a function that uses a for loop and accepts two sets of input data, viz.: A vector of test
scores. The number of scores. The function should return the number of passing grades. Your
function must use both of the input values. Assume that the lowest passing grade is a 60%.
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