MATLAB: Tangent at a given point to a nonlinear curve

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Hello,
I have a problem with caltulating and plotting a tangent to a specified point from data given by two arrays. I know i'm supposed to use spline function to estimate the function of the data points I have and then calculate the derivative and slope to plot a tangent, but unfortunately i'm not very experienced with MATLAB. I would greatly appreciate any help of how to get from teoretical idea to matlab code. So far, i have created a script that uses movmean function to filter any noise i got from the source of the data and got a plot like shown below:
load trzy.csv
A=zeros(1906,2);
A=trzy;
x=A(:,2)*1000;
B=zeros(1906,1);
C=zeros(1906,1);
B(:,1)=movmean(A(:,1),7);
A(:,1)=B(:,1);
C(:,1)=movmean(x,7);
for k = 2:20
   B(:,k)=movmean(B(:,k-1),7) ;
end
for y = 2:20
    C(:,y)=movmean(C(:,y-1),7);
end
plot(B(:,20),C(:,20))

Best Answer

I think you need to be a bit more precise in what you want: you have data with errors in them, and you want to fit a curve that approximates those points, and then get the slope of the curve?
If you want to fit a spline that goes through all data points (of 1D function), and get the slope one simply way to do it is to use interp1:
POL = interp1(xx,yy,'spline','pp');
dPOL = fnder(POL);
dydx = ppval(dPOL,xi);
where xi are your query points. Something like that.
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