Creating function handle from two vectors to pass to an integral function in MATLAB

Question

I'm not sure if I'm being thick here, but I'm not used to function handles etc.

I am trying to find the integral of some raw accelerometer data i have, and was advised by a friend that using Simpsons might be the best way. So i found that MATLAB has the "quad()" function but it accepts a function handle as a parameter.

If i have two vectors, one for time, one for acceleration, how can i create them into a function handle to send to quad()?

Thanks

Answer 1

Use one of these two

f = @(x) sin(x);
x = linspace(a,b,200);
y = f(x);               % values at f(x)

s1 = trapz(x,y);        % you can use trapz
s2 = integral(f,a,b);   % you can use integral

Compare the results. Experiment