Introduction to Advanced Functions

There are several useful built-in Matlab functions that deserve special mention and additional discussion regarding their usage in Matlab. These functions are covered in this module.

A key feature of each of these Matlab functions, is that they require defining other functions which are then used by the built-in function to solve problems.

The built-in functions that are covered in this module are:

• fzero - returns the nearest root of a function
• integral - returns the approximate area under a curve

In order to understand how to use these built-in Matlab functions, we need to understand how to pass a function as a parameter to another function. This requires us to understand function handles.