I keep getting this error Error using sym/subsindex Invalid indexing or function definition. Indexing must follow MATLAB indexing. Function arguments must be symbolic variable

t = linspace(-5,5,1000);
f = heaviside(t+1) - heaviside(t-1);
h = f;

% Define tau and compute h(t-tau)
tau = 0.5;
htau = heaviside(t-tau+1) - heaviside(t-tau-1);

% Compute the product f(tau) * h(t-tau)
prod = f .* htau;

% Plot the functions and their product
figure;
plot(t,f,'LineWidth',2);
hold on;
plot(t,htau,'LineWidth',2);
plot(t,prod,'LineWidth',2);
xlabel('t');
ylabel('Amplitude');
title('Convolution Integral Visualization');
legend('f(\tau)', 'h(t-\tau)', 'f(\tau) * h(t-\tau)');

% Define f(t) and h(t)
t = linspace(-5,5,1000);
f = heaviside(t+1) - heaviside(t-1);
h = f;

% Define tau and compute h(t-tau)
tau = 0.5;
htau = heaviside(t-tau+1) - heaviside(t-tau-1);

% Evaluate the convolution integral symbolically
syms tau1;
y = int(f(tau1)*h(t-tau1),tau1,-inf,+inf);

Error using indexing
Invalid indexing or function definition. Indexing must follow MATLAB indexing. Function arguments must be symbolic variables, and function body must be sym expression.

% Evaluate the convolution integral numerically
y_num = conv(f,htau)*(t(2)-t(1));

% Evaluate y for t=0.5
t_index = find(t==0.5);
y_t = y_num(t_index);

% Display the results
disp(['Symbolic result: y(t) = ', char(y)]);
disp(['Numerical result: y(0.5) = ', num2str(y_t)]);

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

f and h are not funtions. They are vectors. Not sure exactly what you are intending your code to do, but you cannot index a vector with a symbolic variable

syms b
a = 1:5;
a(b)

Error using indexing
Invalid indexing or function definition. Indexing must follow MATLAB indexing. Function arguments must be symbolic variables, and function body must be sym expression.