1. Matlab tutorial course
Exercises 1:

2. Exercises
Go back to my webpage, download the file ‘startup.m’ and save it in your MATLAB home folder
Must be directly in ‘Documents/MATLAB’ (not in the TutorialSlides you created earlier)
In Matlab->Preferences->Current Folder, click view initial working folder preferences, set your
In your Matlab home folder, create a folder ‘code’
Inside this, create two folders: ‘scripts’ and ‘functions’
Close Matlab, then reopen it
You should see a welcome message this time (and every time you open Matlab from now on)
You can edit ‘startup.m’ to change the welcome message if you like
Type ‘path’ in the command window, your folder should have been added
Copy ‘my_first_script’ and ‘my_fun’ into the suitable folders
Check both script and functions work as before

3. Exercises Use Matlab to work out how many seconds there are in a year
Hint, create variables, num_days, num_hours, etc first…
How many seconds are there in 2 years? Or 31 years?
Can you write this as a function to compute the number of seconds for any given number of years?
Hint your function should have one input (the number of years) and one output – the answer
Remember to use expressive function and variable names!

4. Exercises
Lookup ‘Newton's law of universal gravitation’ (yes, you can use wikipedia)
Use the command prompt to compute the force of attraction between the moon and the earth
You can assume
Earth’s mass: 5.97x1024 kg
Moon’s mass: 7.35x1022 kg
Distance from earth to moon: 380,000km
Gravitational constant: 6.674×10−11 N m2 kg−2
Rewrite this as a function that takes as input, M1, M2 and r
When you have tried both exercises, go back to my website, in the folder ‘code’ then ‘functions’ you can see my sample answers
How did you do?