Problems integrating in a "for" loop in Matlab

[ryan.j]

My problem strikes me as embarrassingly simple, so hopefully someone can set me straight with ease.

I'm writing a Matlab code in which I'll be wanting to do a good amount of integrating of products of various eigenfunctions. Presently, I'm just trying to get the code up and running and can't seem to get a basic "for" loop to function as I'd expect.

I'd expect that it would populate an array called "spatial" with seven elements, each of which is an integral of a cosine raised to a given power.

Instead, it creates a singly-valued variable called "spatial" and then stops. For what it's worth, the value that it assigns is what I'd expect for the first execution of that loop.

Here is the exact code giving me this grief:

moments = 7;
a = 11;
lambda = pi/a;

for C1 = 1,moments

integrand = @(x)(cos(lambda*x).^(C1+1))
spatial(C1) = quad(integrand,-a/2,a/2)

end


Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you kindly.
-ryan

[jamesrc]

Your syntax for 'for' isn't right - it should be:

for C1 = 1:moments

to do what you want. Writing it the way you did only executes the loop once (with C1 = 1).

[ryan.j]

Thank you kindly for taking the time to help me out. Member Joffan (http://www.physicsforums.com/member.php?u=376828) just pointed it out to me as well.

Unbelievably simple mistake, and even more unbelievable failure to see it. Especially given that I've a dozen other functioning Matlab scripts with heavy use of for loops.

Thanks again. Hopefully I'll be less ridiculous in the future.
-ryan