Book description
The fifth edition of Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists provides a concise, balanced overview of MATLAB's functionality that facilitates independent learning, with coverage of both the fundamentals and applications. The essentials of MATLAB are illustrated throughout, featuring complete coverage of the software's windows and menus. Program design and algorithm development are presented clearly and intuitively, along with many examples from a wide range of familiar scientific and engineering areas.
This is an ideal book for a first course on MATLAB or for an engineering problem-solving course using MATLAB, as well as a self-learning tutorial for professionals and students expected to learn and apply MATLAB.
• Updated with the features of Matlab R2012b
• More complete coverage of Matlab windows and menus
• Expanded discussion of writing functions and scripts
• Revised and expanded Part II: Applications
• Expanded section on GUIs
• More exercises and examples throughout
• 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 and
selected solutions to end of chapter problems
• Flexible access options: print, e-text, and e-text subscription
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
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Part 1: Essentials
- Part I. Essentials
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. MATLAB Fundamentals
- Chapter 3. Program Design and Algorithm Development
- Chapter 4. MATLAB Functions and Data Import-Export Utilities
- Chapter 5. Logical vectors
- Chapter 6. Matrices and Arrays
- Chapter 7. Function M-files
- Chapter 8. Loops
- Chapter 9. MATLAB Graphics
- Chapter 10. Vectors as Arrays and Other Data Structures
- Chapter 11. Errors and Pitfalls
- Part 2: Applications
- Appendix A. Syntax Quick Reference
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Appendix B. Command and Function Quick Reference
- B.1 General purpose commands
- B.2 Logical functions
- B.3 Language constructs and debugging
- B.4 Matrices and matrix manipulation
- B.5 Mathematical functions
- B.6 Matrix functions
- B.7 Data analysis
- B.8 Polynomial functions
- B.9 Function functions
- B.10 Sparse matrix functions
- B.11 Character string functions
- B.12 File I/O functions
- B.13 Graphics
- Appendix C. ASCII Character Codes
- Appendix D. Solutions to Selected Exercises
- Index
Product information
- Title: Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists, 5th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2013
- Publisher(s): Academic Press
- ISBN: 9780123946133
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