Difference between revisions of "MATLAB: Unit vectors"
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| − | Like explained in the [[Unit vectors|unit vectors article], you have to divide a vector by its magnitude to obtain the corresponding unit vector. This is exactly how it has to be done in MATLAB. Therefor the ''norm''-function presented before is used. For an existing vector ''v'', the corresponding unit vector ''ve'' is computed as follows: | + | Like explained in the [[Unit vectors|unit vectors article]], you have to divide a vector by its magnitude to obtain the corresponding unit vector. This is exactly how it has to be done in MATLAB. Therefor the ''norm''-function presented before is used. For an existing vector ''v'', the corresponding unit vector ''ve'' is computed as follows: |
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Like explained in the unit vectors article, you have to divide a vector by its magnitude to obtain the corresponding unit vector. This is exactly how it has to be done in MATLAB. Therefor the norm-function presented before is used. For an existing vector v, the corresponding unit vector ve is computed as follows:
Applying the norm-function to the new vector ve proves that is has length 1. The described approach works for vectors of any dimension.
