that visualize the information which the engineer works with. In other programming languages used by engineers (such as One of the most powerful features of MATLAB is the ability to easily create C++, Java, Fortran, and so forth), this would be a major task. scale will be more appropriate. If the data being plotted covers a relatively small dynamic range, then In general, if the range of the data being plotted covers many orders of magnitude, a scales work very well. The command prevents MATLAB from overwriting the data plotted on a figure when a plot function is executed two or more times for that figure