10 Introduction to MATLAB®
10.1 INTRODUCTION
The name MATLAB® stands for Matrix Laboratory and was first published before graphical user interfaces were popular. It has evolved through many versions and is usually updated every 6 months or so. MATLAB is a popular computing environment in universities and research institutions. It is not, however, used often in industrial settings because of somewhat expensive licensing fees. Inasmuch as many students of chemical and biomolecular engineering undertake postgraduate or professional studies where MATLAB can be popular, this programming environment is introduced here with the assumption that the reader ...
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