MATLAB Guide: Compatibility with MATLAB 5.3.1 (Release 11.1)
Since the book is being published before the final release of
MATLAB 6 (Release 12),
we provide here some additional information on compatibility of
the book with the current version, MATLAB 5.3.1 (Release 11.1).
Much of the book can be used as is with MATLAB 5.3.1.
In particular, Chapter 1 (A Brief Tutorial) applies without change to
MATLAB 5.3.1 (except for the screendump in Figure 1.1 and the note
below about lrun.m).
Appendix A lists some of the changes in MATLAB 6 most likely to impact
users upgrading from an earlier version.
All the M-files shown in the Listings work fine under MATLAB 5.3.1,
with the exception of
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Page 15, lrun.m: in the call to ode45 the argument needs to be changed from
@lorenzde to 'lorenzde'.
[In fact, in the first printing it is already 'lorenzde', which is a
mistake.
The version of the M-file on this Web site has been corrected.]
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None of the M-file Listings in Chapter 12 for solving differential
equations work in MATLAB 5.3.1.
This is because the way in which the ODE solvers are called has
changed in MATLAB 6, and because the BVP and PDE solvers are new to
MATLAB 6.
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