User defined function wont work, syntax issue?

function [Max_height] = Nheight(v0, la, g)

Max_height = -(v0^2*sin(la)^2)/(2*g);

not really sure what to do to fix it. Cant get it to work.

[Tyler]

and i get an error in line 2.

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

what is the error message

[Jan]

@Tyler: Please provide the error message and the inputs, which cause the error. Otherwise an answer required guessing, and this is always a bad strategy.

Answer 1

[Tyler]

it is

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Your code would have a problem if any of your parameters are vectors, and could have a problem if they are matrices. You should change your * operations to .* and you should change ^ to .^ and should change / to ./

Answer 3

[Tyler]

these are the errors im getting still with the "." also i dont understand why it says undefined function or variable for v0 when there is a defined v0 in the workspace

Undefined function or variable 'v0'.

Error in Max_Height (line 2) Max_height = -((v0).^2.*sin(la).^2)/(2.*g); Error in fminbnd (line 216) x= xf; fx = funfcn(x,varargin{:});

Error in main (line 19) h = fminbnd(@Max_Height, 0, 6500); fprintf('The max height reached was %d meters\n', h)

[Walter Roberson]

Your routine is named Nheight but you are invoking Max_Height.

Note: do not name the routine the same thing as a variable in the routine.

[Tyler]

i changed it were it isnt, and the error nor the undefined v0 went away.

[Walter Roberson]

I am confused about whether the problem is solved or not? If it is not please show your current function and show your main routine where you are calling it.

You do realize that with the code you showed earlier, your "la" and "g" would be undefined? fminbnd() only passes in one parameter. See the fminbnd() documentation.

Answer 4

[Jan]

How do you call the function? Perhaps like this:

v0 = 123;
la = 234;
g  = 567;
Max_height = Nheight

You have to call the function in this way:

Max_height = Nheight(v0, la, g)

The existence of v0 in the workspace is not enough for functions in opposite to scripts. You have to provide the inputs explicitly.

Answer 5

[Tyler]

here is the User defined:

function [Max_h] = Max_Height(v0, la, g)

Max_h= -((v0.^2).*(sin(la)).^2)/(2.*g);

here is the line it is in:

h = fminbnd(@Max_Height,0,6500);

im getting these errors

Error using Max_Height (line 2) Not enough input arguments.

Error in fminbnd (line 216) x= xf; fx = funfcn(x,varargin{:});

Error in main (line 19) h = fminbnd(@Max_Height,0,6500); fprintf('The max height reached was %d meters\n', h);

[Walter Roberson]

"Not enough input arguments" does not mean that v0 is undefined. In your case it indicates that la and g are undefined. fminbnd() only passes in one parameter. See the fminbnd() documentation.

Arguments

fun is the function to be minimized. fun accepts a scalar x and returns a scalar f, the objective function evaluated at x.

and

Parameterizing Functions in the MATLAB Mathematics documentation, explains how to pass additional parameters to your objective function fun.

That links to http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/math/parameterizing-functions.html

[Tyler]

im getting the not enough input arguments from my UDF.

[Tyler]

here is a current of everything again:

UDF:

function [Max_h] = Max_Height(v0, la, g)

Max_h= -((v0.^2).*(sin(la)).^2)/(2.*g);

main script line

h = fminbnd(@Max_Height, 0, 6500);

errors recieved

Undefined function or variable 'la'.

Error in Max_Height (line 2) Max_h= -((v0.^2).*(sin(la)).^2)/(2.*g); Error in fminbnd (line 216) x= xf; fx = funfcn(x,varargin{:});

Error in main (line 19) h = fminbnd(@Max_Height, 0, 6500);

EDU>> Max_Height Error using Max_Height (line 2) Not enough input arguments.

[Walter Roberson]

Read that documentation about parameterizing functions!

What value are you expecting la and g to get? You do not define them anywhere obvious, and fminbnd() is for minimizing along a SINGLE variable. If you are expecting la and g to -also- be varied between the bound 0 to 6500 then you have the logical problem that you divide by g so you would get a discontinuity at your bounds but the minimizers require continuous functions.

[Tyler]

ok. All things aside, when i run my userdefined functions (forget the fminbnd for now), i get not enough input arguments.

everything is in the same folder, variables are in the workspace. do i need to somehow put the variables in the UDF or what?

[Walter Roberson]

What is your current version of the code?

Having variables in the workspace is not good enough: you need to pass them in to the function if they appear in the function heading.