BAE 200 Test 1 Study Guide (Test date: October 7, 2008)
The material presented here should be considered a guide ONLY!
Test material will come from Class notes, Lab Hints, and Homework assignments. See
the text for details if referenced in the notes.
The test will be administered as a closed book test. It will be worth 15% of your final
grade!
For this test you should be able to:
¾ List the 5 Steps to Engineering Problem Solving using computer methods (be able to
state the 6th - effective communication of results
¾ Understand and the importance of and utilize significant figures and units
¾ Know the MATLAB Environment and the purpose of each window
¾ Be familiar with MATLAB code covered in labs and homework. Some specific
examples to pay special attention:
1. Order of mathematical operations
2. Creating vectors and matrices of data
3. Saving your work - diary and M-files
4. The difference between a MATLAB function and a user defined function
5. How programs can call user defined functions
6. Input and Output commands (user prompted input, output supplied in a string)
7. Formatting of output (tables, plots, subplots)
8. Statement level control structures.
9. Relational and Logical operators and how MATLAB uses them (TRUE/FALSE)
10. Conditional statements (if, else, elseif, end)
11. Looping – for end and while end - what is the difference?
12. Loop indexing (example k = 1:n) and what this really means
13. The basics of Matrix operations in MATLAB (don’t need to memorize all of the rules –
but know why certain operations have to be performed because of rules of linear
algebra). How to do element by element operations on a matrix.
14. Solving simultaneous equations with matrices and SOLVE function
15. Interpolation – what it is and how to do it in MATLAB
¾ IMPORTANT! You should be able to write short excerpts of code, predict the outcome
of code given to you, and be able to debug code
¾ Study old homework and solutions in Common Locker