Essential Matlab for Engineers and Scientists

The essential guide is MATLAB as a problem solving tool

This text presents MATLAB both as a mathematical tool and as a source of information and power. The fundamentals of MATLAB are illustrated with many examples of scientific and engineering areas, as well as everyday. The symbolic Math and SIMULINK. It also adds new examples and applications to Matlab.



· New chapters on Symbolic Math and SIMULINK provide Matlab.
* New: more exercises and examples, including new examples of beam bending, flow over an airfoil, and other physics-based problems
* New: A bibliography for the problems and problems in the text
· A chapter on algorithm development and program design
· Common errors and pitfalls highlighted
· Extensive teacher support on http://textbooks.elsevier.com: solutions manual, extra problems, multiple choice questions, PowerPoint slides
· Companion website for students providing M-files used within the book

Part I Essentials

1 Introduction

2 MATLAB fundamentals

3 Design and algorithm development program

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