Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists

by Brian D. Hahn, Dan Valentine

The fifth edition of Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists provides a concise,  balanced overview of MATLAB's functionality that facilitates independent learning, with coverage of both the fundamentals and applications. The essentials of MATLAB are illustrated throughout, featuring complete coverage of the software's windows and menus. Program design and algorithm development are presented clearly and intuitively, along with many examples from a wide range of familiar scientific and engineering areas.

This is an ideal book for a first course on MATLAB or for an engineering problem-solving course using MATLAB, as well as a self-learning tutorial for professionals and students expected to learn and apply MATLAB.

Updated with the features of MATLAB R2012b Expanded discussion of writing functions and scripts Revised and expanded Part II: Applications Expanded section on GUIs More exercises and examples throughout Companion website for students providing M-files used within the book and selected solutions to end-of-chapter problems

Genres: Textbooks, Programming, Engineering, Science, Mathematics

424 pages, Kindle Edition

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.