"... but I'm confused as to why the yticks are so much more intricate than the xtick."
I suspect it is becase the values to x-ticks are not incrementally ordered on the log scale whereas the values to y-ticks are; if tick values to loglog plot are incrementally ordered, then the tick labels will be displayed in exponential format.
(I have not found any such information in the documentation yet, for reference, this is just what I think how it works currently. I'll attach a reference if and when I find it)
That's why the methods that work change the ticklabels to display the values in the default (for the lack of a better term) format.
Let's add a value to make the y-ticks exponentially non-linear and see the output -
z = [2 4 6 10 15 20 30];
q = 2:2000;
V_h = zeros(length(z), length(q));
for ii =1:length(z)
V_h(ii,:) = (q*3.6)/(4*z(ii));
end
loglog(q,V_h)
grid
xlim([2 2000])
ylim([0.1 1000])
set(gca, 'XTick', [0.1 1 10 100 1000 2000])
%Intermediate value added to y-ticks i.e. 500
set(gca, 'YTick', [0.1 1 10 100 500 1000])
As you can see, the y-ticks are now displayed in the default format.
Edit - Changing the exponent value of tick labels will not work in this case - "If the axis has a log scale, then the Exponent property has no effect."
