Engineers Guide to MATLAB, An [Paperback]

Versatile presentation  This text can be used in the following ways:

• To learn MATLAB.
• As a companion to undergraduate and graduate level textbooks in engineering.
• As a reference book for obtaining numerical solutions to a wide range of engineering problems.
• As a source of applications of a wide variety of MATLAB solution techniques.
  

Two interrelated parts:

• Part I: Chapters 1 to 7--introduces the fundamentals of MATLAB syntax and commands, and structured programming techniques.
• Part II: Chapters 8 to 14--makes extensive use of the first seven chapters to obtain numerical solutions to engineering problems for a wide range of topics. In several of these topical areas, MATLAB toolboxes are used extensively to minimize programming complexity.
  

Challenging exercises that cover a wide range of engineering topics.

Numerous challenging, yet practical, examples of engineering applications that take advantage of MATLABs toolboxes to minimize programming complexity: Control System, Simulink, Optimization, Genetic Algorithm and Direct Search, Statistics, and Symbolic.

Worked examples from a wide range of engineering topics that illustrate the various ways to use MATLAB to obtain the solution to practical engineering problems.

Chapters devoted to illustrating how to use MATLAB in specific engineering specialties: dynamics and vibrations, fluid mechanics and aerodynamics, heat transfer, controls, optimization, engineering statistics, and biological systems.