Creating Diagonal Matrices With A Vector Elements In MatLab®(Illustrated Expression)

There are lots of kinds of commands in Matlab® to make it easy to obtain various specific matrices shortly. So this feature of MatLab®, makes the MatLab® software is very desirable for matrix calculations. One of these useful matrix creation commands in Matlab® is the ‘diag()’ command. In this article, we will explain how to create diagonal matrices by using elements of a vector in Matlab.

How To Use ‘diag()’ Command In Matlab®?

>> a = [5 6 4 6 8];
b = diag(a)
c = diag([1 2 3])

b =

     5     0     0     0     0
     0     6     0     0     0
     0     0     4     0     0
     0     0     0     6     0
     0     0     0     0     8


c =

     1     0     0
     0     2     0
     0     0     3

>> 

We created a vector ‘a’ as shown above to create a diagonal matrix by using this vector. So we directly use the vector ‘a’ to create the diagonal matrix of ‘b’. If you look at the result of the ‘b’ as shown above, a diagonal matrix is created with elements of vector ‘a’ as diagonal elements. So you can directly use a vector variable inside the ‘diag()’ command in Matlab®.

Also, we created diagınal matrix ‘c’ as shown above. If you look at the result of ‘c’ as shown above, the diagonal matrix of ‘c’ is created with the elements of the vector that typed inside the ‘diag()’ command. So you can directly type the vector inside the ‘diag()’ command to obtain diagonal matrices in Matlab®.

Conclusion

So the use of the ‘diag()’ command in Matlab® is very simple like that to obtain diagonal matrices.

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