A Practical Introduction to Matlab
(Updated for Matlab 5)

Mark S. Gockenbach

• Contents
• Introduction
• Simple calculations and graphs
  • Entering vectors and matrices; built-in variables and functions; help
  • Graphs
  • Arithmetic operations on matrices
    • Standard operations
    • Solving matrix equations using matrix division
    • Vectorized functions and operators; more on graphs
  • Some miscellaneous commands
• Programming in Matlab
  • Conditionals and loops
  • Scripts and functions
  • A nontrivial example
• Advanced matrix computations
  • Eigenvalues and other numerical linear algebra computations
  • Sparse matrix computations
    • Creating a sparse matrix
• Advanced Graphics
  • Putting several graphs in one window
  • 3D plots
  • Parametric plots
• Solving nonlinear problems in Matlab
• Efficiency in Matlab
• Advanced data types in Matlab
  • Structures
  • Cell arrays
  • Objects
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