Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists, 6th Edition

Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists, Sixth Edition, 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 updated edition includes the latest MATLAB versions through 2016a, and 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 to include all the newer features through MATLAB R2016a
• Includes new chapter on complex variables analysis
• Presents a comparison of execution time between compiled and un-compiled code that includes examples
• Describes the new H2 graphics features

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Differentiation And Integration
Chapter 3 Program Design And Algorithm Development
Chapter 4 Matlab Functions And Data Import-Export Utilities
Chapter 5 Logical Vectors
Chapter 6 Matrices And Arrays
Chapter 7 Function M-?Les
Chapter 8 Loops
Chapter 10 Vectors As Arrays And Other Data Structures
Chapter 11 Errors And Pitfalls
Chapter 12 Dynamical Systems
Chapter 13 Simulation
Chapter 15 Signal Processing
Chapter 16 Simulink”572 Toolbox
Chapter 17 Symbolics Toolbox