
Thinking Like An Engineer: An Active Learning Approach, Student Value Edition (4th Edition)
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Author: STEPHAN, Elizabeth A.; Bowman, David R.; Park, William J.; Sill, Benjamin L.; Ohland, Matthew W.
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Chapter 15.3, Problem 11CC
- a. Write a single MATLAB command that will create a 50,000-element
vector named Biggie in which every tenth element equals -9999 and all other elements equal 0. - b. Assume a vector LV has already been defined. Write a single MATLAB command that will delete all of the even-numbered elements, leaving LV with half as many elements.
- c. Assume a vector named D has an even number of elements. Write a single MATLAB command that will create a new vector named DS with half as many elements, in which each element is the sum of adjacent odd-even pairs in D.
Example:
If D=[2 5 4 –7 3 C], then DS will equal [7 –3 3], found by:
[D(1)+D(2) D(3)+D(4) D(5)+D(6)]
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