Getting Started With MATLAB Version 6: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers

by Pratap, Rudra

• ISBN13: 9780195150148
• ISBN10: 0195150147
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Getting Started with MATLAB: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers · Gets you up and running with MATLAB in just a few hours · Features the latest release of MATLAB · Thoroughly introduces the basics you need to get started · Contains six self-guided lessons (Chapter 2) · Covers useful advanced MATLAB functions (Chapters 3-8) · Works as a handy stand-alone tutorial · Supplements any text that uses MATLAB · Includes numerous new problems and examples MATLAB is one of the most widely used tools in the field of engineering today. Its broad appeal lies in its interactive environment with hundreds of built-in functions for technical computation, graphics, and animation. It provides easy extensibility with its own high-level programming language. Getting Started with MATLAB: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers uses a casual writing style, enhanced by fun and appealing illustrations, to quickly and pleasantly teach readers to enjoy using this high-performance computation and visualization software.

Table of Contents

Preface	1	(2)
Introduction	3	(1)
What Is Matlab?	3	(2)
Does Matlab Do Symbolic Calculations?	5	(1)
Will Matlab Run on My Computer?	6	(1)
Where Do I Get Matlab?	6	(1)
How Do I Use This Book?	6	(2)
Basics of Matlab	8	(8)
Matlab windows	8	(1)
On-line help	9	(1)
Input-Output	9	(3)
File Types	12	(1)
Platform dependence	12	(3)
General commands you should remember	15	(1)
Visit This Again	16	(3)
Tutorial Lessons	19	(28)
A Minimum Matlab Session	21	(4)
Working with Arrays of Numbers	25	(4)
Creating and Printing Simple Plots	29	(4)
Creating, Saving, and Executing a Script File	33	(4)
Creating and Executing a Function File	37	(5)
Working with Files and Directories	42	(5)
Interactive Computation	47	(38)
Matrices and Vectors	49	(8)
Input	49	(1)
Indexing (or Subscripting)	50	(2)
Matrix Manipulation	52	(3)
Creating Vectors	55	(2)
Matrix and Array Operations	57	(10)
Arithmetic operations	57	(2)
Relational operations	59	(1)
Logical operations	59	(2)
Elementary math functions	61	(2)
Matrix functions	63	(1)
Character strings	63	(4)
Creating and Using Inline Functions	67	(2)
Using Built-in Functions and On-line Help	69	(5)
Finding the determinant of a matrix	71	(1)
Finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors	72	(2)
Saving and Loading Data	74	(2)
Saving into and loading from the binary Mat-files	74	(1)
Importing Data Files	75	(1)
Recording a session with diary	75	(1)
Plotting simple graphs	76	(9)
Programming in Matlab: Scripts and Functions	85	(32)
Script Files	85	(3)
Function Files	88	(8)
Executing a function	89	(3)
More on functions	92	(3)
Subfunctions	95	(1)
Compiled (Parsed) functions: P-Code	95	(1)
The Profiler	96	(1)
Language-Specific Features	96	(9)
Use of comments to create on-line help	96	(1)
Continuation	97	(1)
Global variables	97	(1)
Loops, branches, and control-flow	98	(3)
Interactive input	101	(2)
Recursion	103	(1)
Input/output	104	(1)
Advanced Data Objects	105	(12)
Multidimensional matrices	105	(1)
Structures	106	(4)
Cells	110	(7)
Applications	117	(42)
Linear Algebra	117	(5)
Solving a linear system	117	(1)
Gaussian elimination	118	(1)
Finding eigenvalues & eigenvectors	119	(1)
Matrix factorizations	120	(1)
Advanced topics	121	(1)
Curve Fitting and Interpolation	122	(10)
Polynomial curve fitting on a fly	122	(2)
Do it yourself: curve fitting using polynomial functions	124	(2)
Least squares curve fitting	126	(4)
General nonlinear fits	130	(1)
Interpolation	130	(2)
Data Analysis and Statistics	132	(3)
Numerical Integration (Quadrature)	135	(5)
Double integration	138	(2)
Ordinary Differential Equations	140	(12)
A first-order linear ODE	141	(1)
A second-order nonlinear ODE	142	(3)
ode23 versus ode45	145	(1)
Specifying tolerance	145	(1)
The ODE Suite	146	(2)
Event location	148	(4)
Nonlinear Algebraic Equations	152	(2)
Advanced Topics	154	(5)
Graphics	159	(52)
Basic 2-D Plots	159	(14)
Style options	160	(1)
Labels, title, legend, and other text objects	160	(1)
Axis control, zoom-in, and zoom-out	161	(1)
Modifying plots with Plot Editor	162	(1)
Overlay plots	163	(4)
Specialized 2-D plots	167	(6)
Using subplot to Layout Multiple Graphs	173	(1)
3-D Plots	173	(17)
View	174	(3)
Rotate view	177	(1)
Mesh and surface plots	177	(9)
Vector field and volumetric plots	186	(2)
Interpolated surface plots	188	(2)
Handle Graphics	190	(12)
The object hierarchy	191	(1)
Object handles	191	(1)
Object properties	192	(5)
Modifying an existing plot	197	(2)
Complete control over the graphics layout	199	(3)
Saving and Printing Graphs	202	(2)
Animation	204	(7)
Errors	211	(6)
What Else is There?	217	(10)
The Symbolic Math Toolbox	217	(8)
Should you buy it?	218	(1)
Two useful tools in the Symbolic Math Toolbox	218	(2)
Getting help with the Symbolic Toolbox	220	(1)
Using the Symbolic Math Toolbox	221	(3)
Summary: some Symbolic Math Toolbox commands	224	(1)
Debugging Tools	225	(1)
External Interface: Mex-files	225	(1)
Graphics User Interface	225	(2)
A The MATLAB Language Reference	227	(10)
Punctuation Marks and Other Symbols	227	(2)
General-Purpose Commands	229	(1)
Special Variables and Constants	230	(1)
Language Constructs and Debugging	230	(1)
File I/O	230	(1)
Operators and Logical Functions	231	(1)
Math Functions	232	(1)
Matrices: Creation & Manipulation	233	(1)
Character String Functions	234	(1)
Graphics Functions	234	(2)
Applications Functions	236	(1)
Data analysis and Fourier transforms	236	(1)
Polynomials and data interpolation	236	(1)
Nonlinear numerical methods	236	(1)
Bibliography	237	(1)
Index	238