Use a custom baseline to calculate area of a graph
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Rahul Ramesh
le 4 Juin 2021
Commenté : Star Strider
le 7 Juin 2021
Hi,
I am a beginner level Matlab user. I tried searching the forum, could not find a working answer for this quesiton
I have this graph of Heat Flow vs Time. I need to calculate the mathematical area (Area above the baseline being positive and area below being negative) under the curve with a straight baseline formed between first and the last x-value (which is user defined) as shown in the figure below. At present, i am using the following code
%this limit we defined before is passed on to the trapz function to
lims = (x2_values >=value_of_interest_1)&(x2_values <=value_of_interest_2);
%perform numerical integration using the trapeoidal method
net_heat_flow = trapz(x2_values(lims), y2_values(lims));
However, this code calculates the area based on zero baseline. So, my question is how can i define a custom baseline as a straight line formed between the two points of interest? Can this be done using Matlab?
The figure below is from custom software I am using. However, I am trying to use Matlab for this because there are over 500 data files i need to process.
Thanks. Any help or suggestion is appreciated.
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/642275/image.png)
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Star Strider
le 4 Juin 2021
Use trapz to calculate the area under the curve, and use trapz separately to calculate the area under the line.
Then subtract them.
Example —
x = linspace(0,10); % X-Vector
y = 2.5*sinc(x-5) - 0.2*x; % Y-Vector
sincarea = trapz(x, 2.5*sinc(x-5)) % Area Under Original Curve (Reference)
yarea = trapz(x,y) % Area Under Displayed Curve
linearea = trapz(x, -0.2*x) % Area Under The Line
curvearea = yarea - linearea % Area Between Line And Curve
figure
plot(x, y)
hold on
plot(x, -0.2*x)
hold off
grid
axis('equal')
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Star Strider
le 7 Juin 2021
My pleasure!
If I understand your comment correctly, yes.
It returns the area between the x-axis (at y=0) and the line as ‘linearea’, and the area between the x-axis and the curve as ‘yarea’ separately, then subtracts them to return ‘curvearea’. (The ‘sincarea’ calculation is not necessary for the code, other than serving as a sort of ‘proof’ tthat the code returns the correct result.)
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