SCILAB: TEACHING
MATHEMATICS WITH A
COMPUTATIONAL TOOL
David Angulo Rubio
WHAT IS SCILAB
MOTIVATION
The way mathematics courses are being
developed. Students have to struggle to against
abstractions and do not get to see any of the
applications.
 Mathematical concepts are important in order to
understand the results supplied by Scilab
 Teaching mathematics could be definitively more
effective if suitable computational methodology
and software were introduced
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TOOLBOXES AVAILABLE
SCILAB ENVIRONMENT AND BASIC FUNCTIONS
Scilab has the ability to store values,
so that they can be used later
COMPARISONS AND LOGICAL OPERATORS
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ScilLab provides the user with a number of
programming constructs very similar to those
available in Fortran and other high-level
languages.
WORKSPACE AND WORKING DIRECTORY
Scilab Environment Visible
 Workspace  Memory Space where all variables
and functions are stored.
 It’s useful to check this workspace to check where
a variable or function has been defined or not
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LOOPS IN SCILAB
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FOR
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WHILE:
CONDITIONAL CONSTRUCTS IN SCILAB
MATRIX OPERATIONS
Matrix Operations built-in into
SciLab:
•Addition,
•Subtraction
•Multiplication
•Transpose
•Inversion
•Determinant,
•Trigonometric
•Logarithmic
•Exponential, and many others
MATRIX OPERATIONS
SUB-MATRICES
SELECT-CASE
SCILAB SCRIPTS OR PROGRAMS.
Type the
following
SCILAB script
into a
file called
prog1.txt
STATISTICS
FUNCTIONS IN SCILAB
FUNCTION EXAMPLE: CALCULATION OF
FROBENIUS NORM OF A MATRIX
PLOT COMMAND: SIMPLE X-Y PLOTS
In the solutions of linear or nonlinear equations, it is often convenient
to be able to plot the function to visualize the location of the roots of the
function
PLOT COMMAND: SIMPLE X-Y PLOTS
PLOTTING DATA IN 3D
3D GRAPHS USING GRIDS
DATA FITTING AND INTERPOLATION
SIMPLE LINEAR INTERPOLATION
SIMPLE LINEAR INTERPOLATION
SIMPLE LINEAR INTERPOLATION
POLYNOMIALS IN SCILAB
DEFINING A POLYNOMIAL : IDENTIFYING VARIABLE, DEGREE AND COEFFICIENTS
OPERATIONS WITH POLYNOMIALS
POLYNOMIAL FRACTIONS
MATRICES WITH POLYNOMIAL ELEMENTS
DETERMINANT OF
A POLYNOMIAL
MATRIX
EVALUATING A
POLYNOMIAL OR
POLYNOMIAL MATRIX
REFERENCES
Urroz, G.,2001,“Programming with SCILAB”
 Urroz, G.,2001,“Graphics with SCILAB”
 Urroz, G.,2001,“Introduccion to SCILAB”
 Annigeri,S.,2004,“ SCILAB: A Hands On
Introduction”
 Urroz, G.,2001,“Data Fitting and Interpolation with
SCILAB”
 Benmahammed , K.,2010,“SCILAB”
 Campbell, L. Chancelier,J. and Nikoukhah,
R.,2006,“Modeling and Simulation in Scilab/Scicos”
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