MATLAB® Essentials

William Bober, PhD, received his BS in civil engineering from the City College of New York (CCNY), his MS in Engineering Science from Pratt Institute, and his PhD in Engineering Science and Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University. After receiving his PhD, he worked as an associate engineering physicist in the Applied Mechanics Department at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, New York. After leaving Cornell Labs, he was employed as an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) for 12 years; since leaving RIT, he has been an associate professor at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and more recently, in the Department of Civil Engineering there. Dr. Bober has coauthored several textbooks on Analytical and Numerical Methods with MATLAB.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Author

Chapter 1 Computer Programming with MATLAB® for Engineers

Chapter 2 MATLAB® Fundamentals

Chapter 3 Conditional Operators, Built-in Functions with Vector Arguments, MATLAB®’s Interp1 Function, and Some Scalar and Vector Operations

Chapter 4 Self-Written Functions and MATLAB®’s fminbnd Function

Chapter 5 Working with Characters and Strings

Chapter 6 Roots of Algebraic and Transcendental Equations

Chapter 7 System of Algebraic, Linear Equations

Chapter 8 Curve Fitting

Chapter 9 Numerical Integration

Chapter 10 Numerical Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations

Chapter 11 Boundary Value Problems of Ordinary Differential Equations

Appendix

Review Answers

Index