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ESSENTIAL MATLAB FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS
Essential Matlab for Engineers and Scientists
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Fourth Edition

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

Description
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.

Contents


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



Bibliographic details
Paperback, 0 pages, publication date: OCT-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-374883-6
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS

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