Essential MATLAB for engineers and scientists /
Brian H. Hahn, Daniel T. Valentine.
- 5th ed.
- Waltham, Mass. ; Oxford : Academic Press, c2013.
- xvi, 408 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
"Includes coverage of MATLAB R2012B"--Cover. Previous ed.: 2010. Includes index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Essentials -- ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.1.Using MATLAB -- 1.1.1.Arithmetic -- 1.1.2.Variables -- 1.1.3.Mathematical functions -- 1.1.4.Functions and commands -- 1.1.5.Vectors -- 1.1.6.Linear equations -- 1.1.7.Tutorials and demos -- 1.2.The desktop -- 1.2.1.Using the Editor and running a script -- 1.2.2.Help, publish, and view -- 1.2.3.Symbolics and the MuPAD notebook APP -- 1.2.4.Other APPS -- 1.2.5.Additional features -- 1.3.Sample program -- 1.3.1.Cut and paste -- 1.3.2.Saving a program: script files -- 1.3.3.A program in action -- Summary -- Chapter exercises -- ch. 2 MATLAB Fundamentals -- 2.1.Variables -- 2.1.1.Case sensitivity -- 2.2.The workspace -- 2.2.1.Adding commonly used constants to the workspace -- 2.3.Arrays: Vectors and matrices -- 2.3.1.Initializing vectors: Explicit lists -- 2.3.2.Initializing vectors: The colon operator -- 2.3.3.The linspace and logspace functions -- 2.3.4.Transposing vectors -- 2.3.5.Subscripts -- 2.3.6.Matrices -- 2.3.7.Capturing output -- 2.3.8.Structure plan -- 2.4.Vertical motion under gravity -- 2.5.Operators, expressions, and statements -- 2.5.1.Numbers -- 2.5.2.Data types -- 2.5.3.Arithmetic operators -- 2.5.4.Operator precedence -- 2.5.5.The colon operator -- 2.5.6.The transpose operator -- 2.5.7.Arithmetic operations on arrays -- 2.5.8.Expressions -- 2.5.9.Statements -- 2.5.10.Statements, commands, and functions -- 2.5.11.Formula vectorization -- 2.6.Output -- 2.6.1.The disp statement -- 2.6.2.The format command -- 2.6.3.Scale factors -- 2.7.Repeating with for -- 2.7.1.Square roots with Newton's method -- 2.7.2.Factorials! -- 2.7.3.Limit of a sequence -- 2.7.4.The basic for construct -- 2.7.5.For in a single line -- 2.7.6.More general for -- 2.7.7.Avoid for loops by vectorizing! -- 2.8.Decisions -- 2.8.1.The one-line if statement -- 2.8.2.The if-else construct -- 2.8.3.The one-line if-else statement -- 2.8.4.elseif -- 2.8.5.Logical operators -- 2.8.6.Multiple ifs versus elseif -- 2.8.7.Nested ifs -- 2.8.8.Vectorizing ifs? -- 2.8.9.The switch statement -- 2.9.Complex numbers -- Summary -- Chapter exercises -- ch. 3 Program Design and Algorithm Development -- 3.1.The program design process -- 3.1.1.The projectile problem -- 3.2.Programming MATLAB functions -- 3.2.1.Inline objects: harmonic oscillators -- 3.2.2.MATLAB function: y = f(x) -- Summary -- Chapter exercises -- ch. 4 MATLAB Functions and Data Import-Export Utilities -- 4.1.Common functions -- 4.2.Importing and exporting data -- 4.2.1.The load and save commands -- 4.2.2.Exporting text (ASCII) data -- 4.2.3.Importing text (ASCII) data -- 4.2.4.Exporting binary data -- Summary -- Chapter exercises -- ch. 5 Logical vectors -- 5.1.Examples -- 5.1.1.Discontinuous graphs -- 5.1.2.Avoiding division by zero -- 5.1.3.Avoiding infinity -- 5.1.4.Counting random numbers -- 5.1.5.Rolling dice -- 5.2.Logical operators -- 5.2.1.Operator precedence -- 5.2.2.Danger -- 5.2.3.Logical operators and vectors -- 5.3.Subscripting with logical vectors -- 5.4.Logical functions -- 5.4.1.Using any and all -- 5.5.Logical vectors instead of elseif ladders -- Summary -- Chapter exercises -- ch. 6 Matrices and Arrays -- 6.1.Matrices -- 6.1.1.A concrete example -- 6.1.2.Creating matrices -- 6.1.3.Subscripts -- 6.1.4.Transpose -- 6.1.5.The colon operator -- 6.1.6.Duplicating rows and columns: tiling -- 6.1.7.Deleting rows and columns -- 6.1.8.Elementary matrices -- 6.1.9.Specialized matrices -- 6.1.10.Using MATLAB functions with matrices -- 6.1.11.Manipulating matrices -- 6.1.12.Array (element-by-element) operations on matrices -- 6.1.13.Matrices and for -- 6.1.14.Visualization of matrices -- 6.1.15.Vectorizing nested fors: loan repayment tables -- 6.1.16.Multi-dimensional arrays -- 6.2.Matrix operations -- 6.2.1.Matrix multiplication -- 6.2.2.Matrix exponentiation -- 6.3.Other matrix functions -- 6.4.Population growth: Leslie matrices -- 6.5.Markov processes -- 6.5.1.A random walk -- 6.6.Linear equations -- 6.6.1.MATLAB's solution -- 6.6.2.The residual -- 6.6.3.Over-determined systems -- 6.6.4.Under-determined systems -- 6.6.5.Ill conditioning -- 6.6.6.Matrix division -- 6.7.Sparse matrices -- Summary -- Chapter exercises -- ch. 7 Function M-files -- 7.1.Example: Newton's method again -- 7.2.Basic rules -- 7.2.1.Subfunctions -- 7.2.2.Private functions -- 7.2.3.P-code files -- 7.2.4.Improving M-file performance with the profiler -- 7.3.Function handles -- 7.4.Command/function duality -- 7.5.Function name resolution -- 7.6.Debugging M-files -- 7.6.1.Debugging a script -- 7.6.2.Debugging a function -- 7.7.Recursion -- Summary -- Chapter exercises -- ch. 8 Loops -- 8.1.Determinate repetition with series for -- 8.1.1.Binomial coefficient -- 8.1.2.Update processes -- 8.1.3.Nested forS -- 8.2.Indeterminate repetition with series while -- 8.2.1.A guessing game -- 8.2.2.The while statement -- 8.2.3.Doubling time of an investment -- 8.2.4.Prime numbers -- 8.2.5.Projectile trajectory -- 8.2.6.Break and continue -- 8.2.7.Menus -- Summary -- Chapter exercises -- ch. 9 MATLAB Graphics -- 9.1.Basic 2-D graphs -- 9.1.1.Labels -- 9.1.2.Multiple plots on the same axes -- 9.1.3.Line styles, markers and color -- 9.1.4.Axis limits -- 9.1.5.Multiple plots in a figure: subplot -- 9.1.6.figure, clf and cla -- 9.1.7.Graphical input -- 9.1.8.Logarithmic plots -- 9.1.9.Polar plots -- 9.1.10.Plotting rapidly changing mathematical functions: fplot -- 9.1.11.The Property Editor -- 9.2.3-D plots -- 9.2.1.plot3 -- 9.2.2.Animated 3-D plots with comet3 -- 9.2.3.Mesh surfaces -- 9.2.4.Contour plots -- 9.2.5.Cropping a surface with NaNs -- 9.2.6.Visualizing vector fields -- 9.2.7.Visualization of matrices -- 9.2.8.Rotation of 3-D graphs -- 9.3.Handle Graphics -- 9.3.1.Getting handles -- 9.3.2.Graphics object properties and how to change them -- 9.3.3.A vector of handles -- 9.3.4.Graphics object creation functions -- 9.3.5.Parenting -- 9.3.6.Positioning figures -- 9.4.Editing plots -- 9.4.1.Plot edit mode -- 9.4.2.Property Editor -- 9.5.Animation -- 9.5.1.Animation with Handle Graphics -- 9.6.Color etc -- 9.6.1.Colormaps -- 9.6.2.Color of surface plots -- 9.6.3.Truecolor -- 9.7.Lighting and camera -- 9.8.Saving, printing and exporting graphs -- 9.8.1.Saving and opening figure files -- 9.8.2.Printing a graph -- 9.8.3.Exporting a graph -- Summary -- Chapter exercises -- ch. 10 Vectors as Arrays and Other Data Structures -- 10.1.Update processes -- 10.1.1.Unit time steps -- 10.1.2.Non-unit time steps -- 10.1.3.Using a function -- 10.1.4.Exact solution -- 10.2.Frequencies, bar charts, and histograms -- 10.2.1.A random walk -- 10.2.2.Histograms -- 10.3.Sorting -- 10.3.1.Bubble sort -- 10.3.2.MATLAB's Sort -- 10.4.Structures -- 10.5.Cell arrays -- 10.5.1.Assigning data to cell arrays -- 10.5.2.Accessing data in cell arrays -- 10.5.3.Using cell arrays -- 10.5.4.Displaying and visualizing cell arrays -- 10.6.Classes and objects -- Summary -- ch. 11 Errors and Pitfalls -- 11.1.Syntax errors -- 11.1.1.Incompatible vector sizes -- 11.1.2.Name hiding -- 11.2.Logic errors -- 11.3.Rounding error -- Summary -- Chapter exercises -- pt. 2 Applications -- ch. 12 Dynamical Systems -- 12.1.Cantilever beam -- 12.2.Electric current -- 12.3.Free fall -- 12.4.Projectile with friction -- Summary -- Chapter exercises -- ch. 13 Simulation -- 13.1.Random number generation -- 13.1.1.Seeding rand -- 13.2.Spinning coins -- 13.3.Rolling dice -- 13.4.Bacteria division -- 13.5.A random walk -- 13.6.Traffic flow -- 13.7.Normal (Gaussian) random numbers -- Summary -- Chapter exercises -- ch. 14 Introduction to Numerical Methods -- 14.1.Equations -- 14.1.1.Newton's method -- 14.1.2.The Bisection method -- 14.1.3.fzero -- 14.1.4.roots -- 14.2.Integration -- 14.2.1.The Trapezoidal rule -- 14.2.2.Simpson's rule -- 14.2.3.quad -- 14.3.Numerical differentiation -- 14.3.1.diff -- 14.4.First-order differential equations -- 14.4.1.Euler's method -- 14.4.2.Example: Bacteria growth -- 14.4.3.Alternative subscript notation -- 14.4.4.A predictor-corrector method -- 14.5.Linear ordinary differential equations (LODEs) -- 14.6.Runge-Kutta methods -- 14.6.1.A single differential equation -- 14.6.2.Systems of differential equations: Chaos -- 14.6.3.Passing additional parameters to an ODE solver -- 14.7.A partial differential equation -- 14.7.1.Heat conduction -- 14.8.Other numerical methods -- Summary -- Chapter exercises -- ch. 15 Signal Processing -- 15.1.Harmonic analysis -- 15.2.Fast Fourier transform (FFT) -- ch. 16 Simulink® Toolbox -- 16.1.Mass-spring-damper dynamic system -- 16.2.Bouncing ball dynamic system -- 16.3.The van der Pol oscillator -- 16.4.The Duffing oscillator -- Chapter exercises -- ch. 17 Symbolics Toolbox -- 17.1.Algebra -- 17.1.1.Polynomials -- 17.1.2.Vectors -- 17.1.3.Matrices -- 17.2.Calculus -- 17.3.Laplace and Z transforms -- 17.4.Generalized Functions* -- 17.5.Differential equations -- 17.6.Implementation of funtool, MuPAD, and help -- 17.6.1.The funtool -- 17.6.2.The mupad Notebook* and Symbolic help -- Chapter exercises -- APPENDIX A Syntax Quick Reference -- A.1.Expressions -- A.2.Function M-files -- A.3.Graphics -- A.4.If and switch -- A.5.For and while -- A.6.Input/output -- A.7.load/save -- A.8.Vectors and matrices -- APPENDIX B Command and Function Quick Reference -- B.1.General purpose commands -- B.1.1.Managing commands -- B.1.2.Managing variables and the workspace -- B.1.3.Files and the operating system -- B.1.4.Controlling the Command Window -- B.1.5.Starting and quitting MATLAB -- B.2.Logical functions -- B.3.Language constructs and debugging -- B.3.1.MATLAB as a programming language -- B.3.2.Interactive input -- B.4.Matrices and matrix manipulation -- B.4.1.Elementary matrices -- B.4.2.Special variables and constants -- B.4.3.Time and date -- B.4.4.Matrix manipulation -- B.4.5.Specialized matrices -- B.5.Mathematical functions -- B.6.Matrix functions -- B.7.Data analysis -- B.8.Polynomial functions -- B.9.Function functions -- Note continued: B.10.Sparse matrix functions -- B.11.Character string functions -- B.12.File I/O functions -- B.13.Graphics -- B.13.1.2-D -- B.13.2.3-D -- B.13.3.General -- APPENDIX C ASCII Character Codes -- APPENDIX D Solutions to Selected Exercises -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14.