Computer Programming Exam 2 General Practice

Not MCQ just general concepts

break statements ____

get out of the loop it exists in

continue statements send you to ___

the beginning of the for/while loop

jump statements ___

transfer control to another part of the program

two types of jump statements in MATLAB:

break and continue

what is the difference between the built in functions ‘disp’ and ‘fprintf’?

disp: displays strings and one variable

fprintf: prints multiple structures and multiple variables, takes formatting code to display in specific ways

sprintf

formats data into string or character vectors

nargin returns the number of _____ given in the call to the currently executing function

function input arguments

true or false: a script m-file has no input arguments, no output arguments, no keyword when finished

true

True Errror =

True Value (calculation) - Approximate Value (numerical method)

Relative True Error (ε_a) =

True Error / True Value

Approximate Error (E_a) =

Present Approximation - Previous Approximation

Relative Approximate Error (ε_a) =

Approximate Error / Present Approximation OR (Present - Previous) / Present

examples of truncation error

pi, sqrt(2), maclaurin series

approximate riemann sum and approximation of derivates ____ sums

truncates