Essential Matlab for Engineers and Scientists

Brian Hahn, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dan Valentine, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Clarkson University,US.
Brian Hahn, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dan Valentine, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Clarkson University,US.

The essential guide to MATLAB as a problem solving tool This text presents MATLAB both as a mathematical tool and a programming language, giving a concise and easy to master introduction to its potential and power. The fundamentals of MATLAB are illustrated throughout with many examples from a wide range of familiar scientific and engineering areas, as well as from everyday life. The new edition has been updated to include coverage of Symbolic Math and SIMULINK. It also adds new examples and applications, and uses the most recent release of Matlab.

Audience
First time users of Matlab. Undergraduates in engineering and science courses that use Matlab. Any engineer or scientist needing an introduction to MATLAB.

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Published: October 2009

Imprint: Academic Press

ISBN: 978-0-12-374883-6

Part I Essentials
1 Introduction
2 MATLAB fundamentals
3 Program design and algorithm development
4 MATLAB functions data import-export utilities
5 Logical vectors
6 Matrices of numbers arrays of strings
7 Introduction to graphics
8 Loops
9 Errors and pitfalls
10 Function M-files
11 Vectors as arrays: advanced data structures
12 More graphics
13 Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
Part II Applications
14 Dynamics systems
15 Simulation
16 More matrices
17 Introduction to numerical methods
18 Toolboxes that come with MATLAB (web chapter)
Appendices

Essential Matlab for Engineers and Scientists

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