Generating A Step Like Function In MATLAB.

Hi, Previous suggestion to my question was alright. That was much useful to generate a step like function using the command"stairs". But I need to do it without using the standard in-built functions. So, can anyone please help me in generating a stair like function using for loops(or something like that) whose increment and decrement should be by same amount and rises upto a certain height,in MATLAB.

Thanking You!

Answer 1

[Titus Edelhofer]

Hi,

in this case I would take a look at the output of stairs, e.g.

 [x,y]=stairs(1:3, 2:0.5:3)
  x =
     1
     2
     2
     3
     3
  y =
    2.0000
    2.0000
    2.5000
    2.5000
    3.0000

and try to achieve the same using "pure" MATLAB code ...

Titus

[Pranjal Pathak]

Sir, Thanks for your answers. Now can you help me in finding the slopes of this step function IN matlab?

[Titus Edelhofer]

The slope is the ratio by how fast the y values grow devided by how fast the x values grow. If you plot the stairs above (e.g. call stairs without "[x,y]=", followed by "axis equal" you will see, that those stairs have a slope of 0.5 ...

Titus