Posts Tagged as ‘Integration’

April 3, 2009

How do I integrate a discrete function in MATLAB?

Many students ask me how do I do this or that in MATLAB.  So I thought why not have a small series of my next few blogs do that.  In this blog, I show you how to integrate a discrete function.
The MATLAB program link is here.
The HTML version of the MATLAB program is here.
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March 28, 2009

How do I integrate a continuous function in MATLAB

Many students ask me how do I do this or that in MATLAB.  So I thought why not have a small series of my next few blogs do that.  In this blog I show you how to integrate a continuous function.
The MATLAB program link is here.
The HTML version of the MATLAB program is here.
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February 23, 2009

Why keep doubling the segments for an automatic integrator based on Trapezoidal rule?

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July 25, 2008

Can I use numerical solution of ODE techniques to do numerical integration?

Yes.
If you are finding the value of the , then we can solve the integral as an ordinary differential equation as
dy/dx=f(x), y(a)=0
We can now use any of the numerical techniques such as Euler’s methods and Runge-Kutta methods to find the value of y(b) which would be the approximate value of the integral. Use [...]