Why Scilab
➢ Capabilities of the Scilab package
➢ Benefits of shifting to Scilab.
Installing
➢ Show where to download from and how to decide which version to choose (OS and 32/64bit) (www.scilab.org/download)
➢ Windows installation
➢ Linux installation (using package managershow only Debian/Ubuntu as example (sudo aptget install scilab) as well as generic binary) Getting Started
➢ Expressions: Show mathematical expressions with numbers
➢ Variables
➢ Diary command
➢ Define symbolic constants.
➢ Basic functions
➢ suppressing output(;)
➢ help,clc
Vector Operations
➢ Define vector and calculate length of a vector.
➢ Perform mathematical operations on Vectors such as addition,subtraction and multiplication.
➢ Define a matrix and calculate size of a matrix.
➢ Perform mathematical operations on Matrices such as addition, subtraction and multiplication.
Matrix Operations
➢ Access the elements of Matrix
➢ Determine the determinant, inverse and eigen values of a matrix.
➢ Define special matrices.
➢ Perform elementary row operations.
➢ Solve the system of linear equations.
Scripts and Functions
➢ Introduction to the file formats in Scilab.
➢ SCRIPT files.
➢ sce versus .sci
➢ Inline functions.
Conditional Branching
➢ ‘if’ and ‘then’ with the example
➢ use of the ‘else’ keyword
➢ use of the ‘elseif’ keyword
➢ example for select
Iteration Control
➢ ‘for’ statement-tell that the variable iterates over a list/vector/matrix (or an expression that evaluates to any of these).
➢ Break, continue and while statements.
Plotting 2D graphs
➢ About linspace: linspace is a linearly spaced vector.
➢ plot and plot2d
➢ Using clf() clear the graphic window.
➢ Configure the title for the plot
➢ Configure a legend
➢ Divide a graphic window into a matrix of subwindows using subplot(mnp)
Xcos Introduction
➢ What is XCOS and palette.
➢ To collect the blocks from the palette and connect them to construct the block diagram.
➢ Set the parameters of different blocks.
➢ To setup the simulation parameters.
➢ Simulate the constructed block diagram.
File Handling-Scilab File handling
➢ Writing to a file using write()
➢ Reading from a file using read()
➢ Opening an existing file using mopen() and closing using mclose() User Defined Input and Output in Scilab
➢ Input Function.
➢ mprintf(), save() and load()
➢ Used to quit scilab midway through calculation and continue at later stage.
Develop Scilab code for different Composite Numerical Integration algorithms
➢ Divide the integral into equal intervals
➢ Apply the algorithm to each interval
➢ Calculate the composite value of the integral
Numerical methodsSolving Non-linear Equations
➢ Learn how to solve nonlinear equations using numerical methods
➢ Bisection method and Secant method
➢ Learn how to develop Scilab code for solving nonlinear equations
Explain Gauss Elimination method algorithm
Explain code for Gauss Elimination method and solve an example using this code
Explain Gauss Jordan method algorithm
Explain code for Gauss Jordan method and solve an example using this code
1. Solve system of linear equations using iterative methods
2. Use Jacobi and Gauss Seidel iterative methods
3. Learn how to iterate until we converge at the solution
4. Learn how Gauss Seidel method is faster than Jacobi method
5. Develop Scilab code for these two methods to solve linear equations
Numerical Interpolation
Develop Scilab code for different Numerical Interpolation algorithms
Calculate new value of function from given data points
Solving ODEs using Euler Methods
1. Solve ODEs using Euler and Modified Euler methods
2. Develop Scilab code to solve ODEs
Solving ODEs using Scilab ode Function
Use Scilab ode function
Solve typical examples of ODEs
Plot the solution About Optimization
Use of Scilab function Karmarkar in Optimization
Plotting continuous and discrete sine waves.
Plotting step function.
Plotting ramp function.
1. Define a continuous time system: second and higher order
2. Response plot for step input
3. Response plot for sine input
4. Bode plot
5. Study numer and denom Scilab functions
6. Plot poles and zeros of function
Define discrete time system variable z
Define first order discrete time system
Explain ones, flts, dscr, ss2tf functions
Write a squaring function
Use of scifunc block in XCOS
Use of MUX block
Call functions having multiple inputs and outputs