How to plot a function within a for loop?

I am trying to graph the resulting output of my function in a for loop, but all that comes up is a blank graph.

Any help is appreciated

[Stephen23]

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Answer 1

[Voss]

You're plotting one point at a time there, which won't appear unless you use a data marker. And even then you'll only see the last one without turning hold on

% F = input('Value for F: ')
F = 3;

figure()
hold on % hold on to see all the points
for i = .05:.05:.95
    term = F*((1/(1-i)^1)^.8+11*(1/i)^.4);
    fprintf('Cost is %4.1f for Xa %1.2f\n', term,i)
    plot(term,'o') % data marker
end

Cost is 112.5 for Xa 0.05
Cost is 86.2 for Xa 0.10
Cost is 73.9 for Xa 0.15
Cost is 66.4 for Xa 0.20
Cost is 61.2 for Xa 0.25
Cost is 57.4 for Xa 0.30
Cost is 54.5 for Xa 0.35
Cost is 52.1 for Xa 0.40
Cost is 50.3 for Xa 0.45
Cost is 48.8 for Xa 0.50
Cost is 47.6 for Xa 0.55
Cost is 46.7 for Xa 0.60
Cost is 46.2 for Xa 0.65
Cost is 45.9 for Xa 0.70
Cost is 46.1 for Xa 0.75
Cost is 47.0 for Xa 0.80
Cost is 48.9 for Xa 0.85
Cost is 53.3 for Xa 0.90
Cost is 66.6 for Xa 0.95

There you go - there's a plot of all the term values.

I imagine it would be better to plot the term values as a function of i, which might look like this:

figure()
hold on
for i = .05:.05:.95
    term = F*((1/(1-i)^1)^.8+11*(1/i)^.4);
    fprintf('Cost is %4.1f for Xa %1.2f\n', term,i)
    plot(i,term,'o')
end

Cost is 112.5 for Xa 0.05
Cost is 86.2 for Xa 0.10
Cost is 73.9 for Xa 0.15
Cost is 66.4 for Xa 0.20
Cost is 61.2 for Xa 0.25
Cost is 57.4 for Xa 0.30
Cost is 54.5 for Xa 0.35
Cost is 52.1 for Xa 0.40
Cost is 50.3 for Xa 0.45
Cost is 48.8 for Xa 0.50
Cost is 47.6 for Xa 0.55
Cost is 46.7 for Xa 0.60
Cost is 46.2 for Xa 0.65
Cost is 45.9 for Xa 0.70
Cost is 46.1 for Xa 0.75
Cost is 47.0 for Xa 0.80
Cost is 48.9 for Xa 0.85
Cost is 53.3 for Xa 0.90
Cost is 66.6 for Xa 0.95

And it might be better still to plot them in a single line, so make the variable term a vector and plot it after the loop:

figure();
i_vector = 0.05:0.05:0.95;
for i = 1:numel(i_vector)
    term(i) = F*((1/(1-i_vector(i)))^0.8+11*(1/i_vector(i))^.4);
    fprintf('Cost is %4.1f for Xa %1.2f\n', term(i), i_vector(i))
end

Cost is 112.5 for Xa 0.05
Cost is 86.2 for Xa 0.10
Cost is 73.9 for Xa 0.15
Cost is 66.4 for Xa 0.20
Cost is 61.2 for Xa 0.25
Cost is 57.4 for Xa 0.30
Cost is 54.5 for Xa 0.35
Cost is 52.1 for Xa 0.40
Cost is 50.3 for Xa 0.45
Cost is 48.8 for Xa 0.50
Cost is 47.6 for Xa 0.55
Cost is 46.7 for Xa 0.60
Cost is 46.2 for Xa 0.65
Cost is 45.9 for Xa 0.70
Cost is 46.1 for Xa 0.75
Cost is 47.0 for Xa 0.80
Cost is 48.9 for Xa 0.85
Cost is 53.3 for Xa 0.90
Cost is 66.6 for Xa 0.95

plot(i_vector,term)

Answer 2

[David Hill]

No for-loop needed.

i = .05:.05:.95;
F = 10;
term = F*((1./(1-i).^1).^.8+11*(1./i).^.4);
plot(term)