Essential Matlab for Engineers and Scientists

by Brian D. Hahn, Daniel T. Valentine

The essential guide to MATLAB as a problem solving tool This 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. 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. The new edition has been updated to include coverage of Symbolic Math and SIMULINK. It also adds new examples and applications, and uses the most recent release of Matlab.

Genres: Textbooks, Programming, Engineering, Science, Mathematics

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Chris Lynch]

A good solid book by well-qualified authors, that eases the user into exploring the capabilities of MATLAB in a friendly, chatty style - with only a couple of typographic errors to keep you on your toes!

[Stanislav Botan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finished this within two days with the hopes that i'll be able to do the necessary coding for my engineering MSc thesis and i cannot vouch for this book more, although the examples are no better than the documentation provided by Mathworks it has enabled me to continue more efficiently with my work. It should be noted that the examples provided are pretty basic and is a good read for anyone that is looking to build simple programs within the Matlab environment. The book is pretty useless if you are looking to learn more about building good programming practices and building more complex programs.

Note: I looked into this book because my knowledge surrounding matrices operations, curve fitting, statistical analysis and for/while loops was pretty rusty.

[Navid Aliakbarian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Practical book for students

[Dwight Walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very handy manual for writing MATLAB scripts for QUT robotics courses.