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MATLAB Cheat Sheet Plot Basics

This document provides instructions and examples for basic plotting in MATLAB. It describes the plot, title, xlabel, ylabel, legend and grid functions and their usage, inputs, and purpose. An example at the end demonstrates how to create a line plot with two datasets, add labels and a legend, and turn on the grid.

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MATLAB Cheat Sheet Plot Basics

This document provides instructions and examples for basic plotting in MATLAB. It describes the plot, title, xlabel, ylabel, legend and grid functions and their usage, inputs, and purpose. An example at the end demonstrates how to create a line plot with two datasets, add labels and a legend, and turn on the grid.

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Plotting in MATLAB: The Basics

a MATLAB Cheat Sheet by SPARTAN PROFESSOR


plot

Description: plot(X,Y) creates a 2-D line plot of the data in Y versus the corresponding values in X.

Input Arguments: The function usually has two input arguments: plot(X,Y)
• X is the independent variable. The x-coordinates are usually specified as a vector.
• Y is the dependent variable. The y-coordinates are usually specified as a vector.

Note 1: The independent variable is plotted on the horizontal axis (abscissa) and the dependent variable
is plotted on the vertical axis (ordinate).

Note 2: To plot more than one data set on the same set of axes, use the syntax plot(X1,Y1,X2,Y2,
…,Xn,Yn) where multiple pairs of x- and y-coordinates are specified.

title

Description: title(titletext) adds the specified title to the plot.

Input Arguments: The function usually has one input argument: title(titletext)
• titletext is usually specified as a character vector (e.g., 'My Title').

xlabel and ylabel

Description: xlabel(txt) adds a label to the x-axis of the plot and ylabel(txt) adds a label to the y-axis
of the plot.

Input Arguments: The functions usually have one input argument: xlabel(txt) and ylabel(txt)
• txt is usually specified as a character vector (e.g., 'x-Axis Label')

legend

Description: legend(label1,label2,…,labelN) creates a legend with descriptive labels for each plotted
data series.

Input Arguments: The labels are usually specified as a list of character vectors.
• For example, legend('My Label 1','My Label 2')

Note: The order of the descriptive labels should correspond to the order of the data sets in the plot
function.

grid

Description: grid controls the addition or removal of grid lines to the current axes.

Note: grid ON adds major grid lines, grid MINOR toggles minor grid lines, and grid OFF removes
major and minor grid lines.

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Example

1 – x = 0:0.1:10;
2 – y1 = exp(0.4*x);
3 – y2 = 10*sqrt(x);
4 – plot(x,y1,x,y2)
5 – title('My Plot Title')
6 – xlabel('x-Axis Label')
7 – ylabel('y-Axis Label')
8 – legend('y_1','y_2')
9 - grid

My Plot Title
60

y
1

y
2
50

40
y-Axis Label

30

20

10

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
x-Axis Label

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