Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists. Edition No. 5

Table of Contents

Part 1 ESSENTIALS:IntroductionMATLAB FundamentalsProgram Design and Algorithm DevelopmentMATLAB Functions and Data Import-Export UtilitiesLogical VectorsMatrices and Arrays Function M-FilesLoopsMATLAB GraphicsVectors as Arrays and Other Data StructuresErrors and PitfallsPart II APPLICATIONS:Dynamical SystemsSimulationIntroduction to Numerical MethodsSignal ProcessingSIMULINK ToolboxSymbolics ToolboxAppendices Index

Authors

Daniel T. Valentine Professor Emeritus and was Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA. Daniel T. Valentine Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus and was Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York. He was also Affiliate Director of the Clarkson Space Grant Program of the New York NASA Space Grant Consortium, a program that provided support for undergraduate and graduate research. His Ph.D. degree is in fluid Mechanics from the Catholic University of America. His BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering are from Rutgers University. Dr. Valentine is also co-author of Aerodynamics for Engineering Students (Butterworth Heinemann). Brian H. Hahn Former Professor, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Brian Hahn was a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town. In his career, Brian wrote more than 10 books for teaching programming languages to beginners.