Essential MATLAB for engineers and scientists / Brian D. Hahn and Daniel T. Valentine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valentine, Daniel T., 1946-

Contributor:

Hahn, Brian D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

MATLAB.

Numerical analysis--Data processing.

Numerical analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; London : Butterworth Heinemann, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The essential guide to MATLAB as a problem solving toolThis 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. Stressing the importance of a structured approach to problem solving, the text gives a step-by-step method for program design and algorithm development. 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.Features: Includes MATLAB Version

Contents:

Cover; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the third edition; PART I: ESSENTIALS; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Using MATLAB; 1.2 The MATLAB desktop; 1.3 Sample program; 1.3.1 Cut and paste; 1.3.2 Saving a program: script files; 1.3.3 How a program works; Chapter 2 MATLAB fundamentals; 2.1 Variables and the workspace; 2.1.1 Variables; 2.1.2 Case sensitivity; 2.1.3 The workspace; 2.1.4 Adding commonly used constants to the workspace; 2.2 Arrays: vectors and matrices; 2.2.1 Initializing vectors: explicit lists; 2.2.2 Initializing vectors: the colon operator; 2.2.3 linspace

2.2.4 Transposing vectors2.2.5 Subscripts; 2.2.6 Matrices; 2.2.7 Capturing output; 2.3 Vertical motion under gravity; 2.4 Operators, expressions and statements; 2.4.1 Numbers; 2.4.2 Data types; 2.4.3 Arithmetic operators; 2.4.4 Precedence of operators; 2.4.5 The colon operator; 2.4.6 The transpose operator; 2.4.7 Arithmetic operations on arrays; 2.4.8 Expressions; 2.4.9 Statements; 2.4.10 Statements, commands and functions; 2.4.11 Vectorization of formulae; 2.5 Output; 2.5.1 disp; 2.5.2 format; 2.5.3 Scale factors; 2.6 Repeating with for; 2.6.1 Square roots with Newton's method

2.6.2 Factorials!2.6.3 Limit of a sequence; 2.6.4 The basic for construct; 2.6.5 for in a single line; 2.6.6 More general for; 2.6.7 Avoid for loops by vectorizing!; 2.6.8 A common mistake: for less loops!; 2.7 Decisions; 2.7.1 The one-line if statement; 2.7.2 The if-else construct; 2.7.3 The one-line if-else statement; 2.7.4 elseif; 2.7.5 Logical operators; 2.7.6 Multiple ifs versus elseif; 2.7.7 Nested ifs; 2.7.8 Vectorizing ifs?; 2.7.9 switch; 2.8 Complex numbers; 2.9 More on input and output; 2.9.1 fprintf; 2.9.2 Output to a disk file with fprintf; 2.9.3 General file I/O

2.9.4 Saving and loading data2.10 Odds 'n ends; 2.10.1 Variables, functions and scripts with the same name; 2.10.2 The input statement; 2.10.3 Shelling out to the operating system; 2.10.4 More Help functions; 2.11 Programming style; Chapter 3 Program design and algorithm development; 3.1 Computer program design process; 3.1.1 Projectile problem example; 3.2 Other examples of structure plans; 3.2.1 Quadratic equation; 3.3 Structured programming with functions; Chapter 4 MATLAB functions & *data import-export utilities; 4.1 Some common functions; 4.2 *Importing and exporting data

4.2.1 The load and save commands4.2.2 Exporting text (ASCII) data; 4.2.3 Importing text (ASCII) data; 4.2.4 Exporting binary data; 4.2.5 The Import Wizard; 4.2.6 Low-level file I/O functions; 4.2.7 Other import/export functions; Chapter 5 Logical vectors; 5.1 Examples; 5.1.1 Discontinuous graphs; 5.1.2 Avoiding division by zero; 5.1.3 Avoiding infinity; 5.1.4 Counting random numbers; 5.1.5 Rolling dice; 5.2 Logical operators; 5.2.1 Operator precedence; 5.2.2 Danger; 5.2.3 Logical operators and vectors; 5.3 Subscripting with logical vectors; 5.4 Logical functions; 5.4.1 Using any and all

5.5 Logical vectors instead of elseif ladders

Notes:

Includes index.

Related Work:

Hahn, Brian D. Essential MATLAB for scientists and engineers.

ISBN:

1-280-96232-1

9786610962327

0-08-047150-1

OCLC:

134968698