Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists

Daniel T. Valentine Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus and was Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York. He was also Affiliate Director of the Clarkson Space Grant Program of the New York NASA Space Grant Consortium, a program that provided support for undergraduate and graduate research. His Ph.D. degree is in fluid Mechanics from the Catholic University of America. His BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering are from Rutgers University. Dr. Valentine is also co-author of Aerodynamics for Engineering Students (Butterworth Heinemann). Brian Hahn was a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town. In his career, Brian wrote more than 10 books for teaching programming languages to beginners.

1. Introduction2. MATLAB Fundamentals3. Program Design and Algorithm Development4. MATLAB Functions and Data Import-Export Utilities5. Logical Vectors6. Matrices and Arrays7. Function M-files8. Loops9. MATLAB Graphics10. Vectors as Arrays and other Data Structures11. Dynamical Systems12. Simulation13. Introduction to Numerical Methods14. Signal Processing15. SIMULINK® Toolbox16. Symbolics Toolbox17. Complex Variables Applications