Essential MATLAB for Scientists and Engineers, Second Edition

by Brian D. Hahn

Based on a teach-yourself approach, the fundamentals of MATLAB are illustrated throughout with many examples from a number of different scientific and engineering areas, such as simulation, population modelling, and numerical methods, as well as from business and everyday life. Some of the examples draw on first-year university level maths, but these are self-contained so that their omission will not detract from learning the principles of using MATLAB.

This completely revised new edition is based on the latest version of MATLAB. New chapters cover handle graphics, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), structures and cell arrays, and importing/exporting data. The chapter on numerical methods now includes a general GUI-driver ODE solver.


* Maintains the easy informal style of the first edition
* Teaches the basic principles of scientific programming with MATLAB as the vehicle
* Covers the latest version of MATLAB

Genres: Textbooks, Programming, Engineering, Science, Mathematics

320 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]

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]

Practical book for students

[Hussam]

The book stays true to its name "Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists" as it is introductory level but still will get you started with vectors, matrices and how to manipulate them.

[Dwight Walker]

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