Error using besselj. NU and Z must be the same size or one must be a scalar.

What is wrong with the following program?

Z = (0:0.2:9)';
NU = 0:5;
y = besselj(NU, Z);  % Bessel function
plot(Z, y)
xlabel('Z');
ylabel('y');
title('y = besselj(NU, Z), for alpha = 0,1,2,3,4, and 5');

 Output:

 >> plotting
 Error using besselj
 NU and Z must be the same size or one must be a scalar.

 Error in plotting (line 3)
 y = besselj(NU, Z);  % Bessel function

Ref: http://www.ee.hacettepe.edu.tr/~solen/Matlab/MatLab/Matlab%20-%20Graphics%20and%20GUIs%20with%20Matlab,%203rd%20Edition.pdf

See:

Figure 3.6 Plotting the matrix y versus the vector x.

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

That textbook was written quite some time ago. At the time it was written that syntax worked, but it was removed in release R2012b.