%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % HW 1, Problem 1.2 solution key % Carlos J. Cela, Jan 2012 % % Calculates and plots E field distribution in a 2D region due to the % presence of point electrical charges. % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% clear all %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % First, calculate E field %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Define region size xmin = -1; xmax = 1; ymin = -1; ymax = 1; % Scale to % Initialize arrays to store E field vector components. The % region will be divided in a number of points per axis for plotting. Ex(1:51,1:51) = 0; Ey(1:51,1:51) = 0; % Now iterate in the region of interest, dividing it in % discrete points, to be able to plot x = 0; for i = xmin:(xmax-xmin)/50:xmax x = x+1; y = 0; for j = ymin:(ymax-ymin)/50:ymax y = y+1; % Calculate Ex and Ey Ex(y,x) = sin(pi/2*j); Ey(y,x) = -sin(pi/2*i); end end %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Now, plot %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Calculate and plot E field magnitude figure(1); imagesc(flipud(rot90(sqrt(Ex.^2+Ey.^2)))); colormap hot grid on % Flip Y-axis of image (by default this % type of plot is upside-down) set(gca,'YDir','normal'); % Set tick marks on axes set(gca,'XTick',[1 12.5 25 37.5 50]); set(gca,'XTickLabel','-1|-0.5|0|0.5|1'); set(gca,'YTick',[1 12.5 25 37.5 50]); set(gca,'YTickLabel','-1|-0.5|0|0.5|1'); % Add title and units, label axes title('Electric field magnitude [V/m] and direction at each point', 'fontsize', 14); xlabel('X position [m]', 'fontsize', 14); ylabel('Y position [m]', 'fontsize', 14); % Hold plot to overlap quiver on top hold on % Add color bar scale for reference colorbar % Overlap E field vectors, scaling arrows by a factor % of 2 so the direction can be seen clearly. h = quiver(Ex, Ey); set(h, 'LineWidth',1,'Color' , [.5 .5 .8]); %axes([1 51 1 51]); hold off