%% impulse_example.m % Script to show the effect of an impulse on a first order system % BJ Furman % 29AUG2015 %% Plotting the impulse response for a time duration of $\delta t clear all close all tau = 1; % Excite with an impulse input keeping area under impulse constant tend = tau*[5 3 1 0.5 0.1 0.01]; num_plots = length(tend); figure hold h = zeros(1,num_plots); % Alternate Color Scheme colors = colormap(hsv(num_plots)); for n = 1:num_plots t1 = linspace(0,tend(n),500); Vnorm_forced = (1/tend(n))*(1-exp(-t1/tau)); t2 = linspace(t1(end),(t1(end)+5*tau),500); Vnorm_free = Vnorm_forced(end)*exp(-(t2-t1(end))/tau); h(n)= plot([t1,t2],[Vnorm_forced,Vnorm_free],'DisplayName',sprintf('tau=%g',tend(n))); end grid legend(h) title('Constant Magnitude Impulse Response') xlabel('t/\tau') ylabel('V/V1') plot([0,0, 0,tend(1),tend(1)],[0,1/tend(1),1/tend(1),1/tend(1),0],'Color','k','LineWidth',1) plot([0,0, 0,tend(2),tend(2)],[0,1/tend(2),1/tend(2),1/tend(2),0],'Color','k','LineWidth',1) plot([0,0, 0,tend(3),tend(3)],[0,1/tend(3),1/tend(3),1/tend(3),0],'Color','k','LineWidth',1) plot([0,0, 0,tend(4),tend(4)],[0,1/tend(4),1/tend(4),1/tend(4),0],'Color','k','LineWidth',1) %%