MATLAB Symbolic Math Toolbox

This skill provides guidelines, correct syntax, and common patterns for generating MATLAB® code that uses Symbolic Math Toolbox.

When to Use This Skill

• Creating or manipulating symbolic variables, expressions, and functions
• Performing symbolic differentiation, integration, limits, or summation
• Simplifying, factoring, expanding, or collecting symbolic expressions
• Computing Laplace, Fourier, or Z-transforms and their inverses
• Deriving transfer functions or state-space equations from differential equations
• Displaying or plotting symbolic expressions
• Using variable precision arithmetic (VPA)
• Generating MATLAB functions, Simulink function blocks, Simscape equations, and C code from symbolic expressions
• Extracting PDE coefficients for use with PDE Toolbox
• Converting symbolic expressions to C code or standalone executables
• Matrix-level (atomic, textbook-style) symbolic linear algebra with symmatrix
• Using physical units or constants in symbolic computations with symunit
• Rewriting or combining algebraic expressions into specific forms