Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book is written for students at bachelor and master programs and has four different purposes, which split the book into four parts: 1. To teach first or early year undergraduate engineering students basic knowledge in technical computations and programming using MATLAB. The first part starts from first principles and is therefore well suited both for readers with prior exposure to MATLAB but lacking a solid foundational knowledge of the capabilities of the system and readers not having any previous experience with MATLAB. The foundational knowledge gained from these interactive guided tours of the system will hopefully be sufficient for an effective utilization of MATLAB in the engineering profession, in education and in research. 2. To explain the foundations of more advanced use of MATLAB using the facilities added the last couple of years, such as extended data structures, object orientation and advanced graphics. 3. To give an introduction to the use of MATLAB in typical undergraduate courses in electrical engineering and mathematics, such as calculus, algebra, numerical analysis and statistics. This part also contains introductions and mini-manuals to the most used MATLAB toolboxes. Thus, some chapters require additional MATLAB toolboxes. The idea is to give a brief tutorial on each subject and show the possibilities for applying MATLAB to each application area. We have focused on basic concepts in the applications, without trying to explain all theory behind the examples.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Learning Matlab (p. 1)
• 1 Introduction (p. 1)
• 2 Interactive computation and elementary functions (p. 6)
• 3 Manipulating matrices (p. 9)
• 4 Strings and workspace administration (p. 16)
• 5 Graphical illustrations (p. 22)
• 6 Matrix algebra and polynomials (p. 28)
• 7 Advanced graphics (p. 33)
• 8 Matlab Scripts (p. 36)
• 9 Matlab Functions (p. 41)
• 10 Functions of functions (p. 57)
• 2 Advanced Programming (p. 61)
• 11 Data Structures (p. 61)
• 11.1 Sparse Matrices (p. 61)
• 11.2 Multidimensional Arrays and Cell Arrays (p. 64)
• 11.3 Structs (p. 67)
• 12 Object Orientation (p. 72)
• 13 Graphical Object Orientation and User Interfaces (p. 76)
• 13.1 Graphical objects (p. 76)
• 13.2 Default settings (p. 77)
• 13.3 Graphical User Interface (GUI) (p. 78)
• 13.4 Constructing a GUI using guide (p. 83)
• 14 Optimizing Matlab Code (p. 84)
• 15 Calling C-routines from Matlab (p. 88)
• 3 Applications of Matlab (p. 91)
• 16 Calculus (p. 91)
• 17 Data interpolation (p. 96)
• 18 Linear Algebra (p. 100)
• 19 Optimization (p. 115)
• 20 Numerical Accuracy and Number Representation (p. 123)
• 21 Statistics (p. 127)
• 22 Control Theory and the LTI Object (p. 132)
• 23 Dynamical Simulation with Simulink (p. 138)
• 24 Ordinary Differential Equations (p. 143)
• 25 Signal processing (p. 146)
• 26 Communication systems (p. 162)
• 27 Documentation, presentation and animation (p. 167)
• A Answers to the exercises (p. 171)
• B Command reference (p. 179)
• C Summary of mathematical functions (p. 185)
• D Toolbox Summaries (p. 193)
• E Graphics summary (p. 201)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Gustafsson (Linkoping Univ., Sweden) and Bergman (SaabTechSystems, Sweden) have done an outstanding job in introducing MATLAB to science and engineering students, faculty, researchers, and working professionals in all technical fields. The book's stepwise "guided tour" technique helps readers learn a new programming language. Each chapter acts as an actual engineering course, offering MATLAB in the context of practical use. The text is very well organized and contains many practical examples, exercises with solutions, and a 40-page appendix with summaries and tables of MATLAB functions. The book will be a useful addition to the bookshelves of all technical program students, scientists, and engineers, both as a learning tool and quick reference to subject material. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals; two-year technical program students. S. T. Karris University of California, Berkeley