Basic plotting (no, not conniving)

• If x and y are two arrays with the same number of elements, plot(x,y) draws a plot of x (horizontal) vs y (vertical)

x = linspace(0, 4*pi, 250);

y = sin(x);

plot(x,y)

• Normally the graph is scaled so the full range of x and y values fill the plot. To have equal spacing on the axes, enter

axis(�equal�)

after the plot has been drawn (using straight quote marks).

• You can label the axes and title the graph after it has been drawn:

xlabel(�x axis label�)

ylabel(�y axis label�)

title(�A Fabulous Graph�)

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