The Symbolic Math Toolbox is a toolbox for MATLAB that adds extra functionality in mathematics for analysis, visualisation, and manipulation.
The core addition is support for symbolic variables, which can be declared with syms x, y, z
The basics
To solve any given function, we can do:
syms t;
eqn = t^2 + 3 * t + 4;
solve(eqn == 0, t)which declares some symbolic variable, an equation in terms of that variable, and solves it for when the function is equal to 0 with respect to t.
Other useful tools
- Laplace transform —
laplace - Inverse Laplace transform —
ilaplace