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expm - Compute symbolic matrix exponential

Syntax

expm(A)

Description

expm(A) computes the matrix exponential of the symbolic matrix A.

Examples

Compute the matrix exponential for the following matrix and simplify the result:

syms t;
A = [0 1; -1 0];
simplify(expm(t*A))

The result is:

ans =
[  cos(t), sin(t)]
[ -sin(t), cos(t)]

See Also

eig

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