An interactive introduction to MATLAB

0.1 What isMATLAB?

0.2 How isMATLABused in industry?

1 basic concepts

1.1 MATLABin the School of Engineering

1.2 TheMATLABenvironment

1.3 Basic calculations

1.4 Variables and arrays

1.5 Solving systems of linear equations

2 plotting

2.1 Simple 2dplotting
- 2.1.1 Multiple plots in one Figure Window

2.2 Curve-fitting

2.3 3 dplotting using plot3 and surf

3 scripts and functions

3.1 Script files

3.2 Functions

4 decision making

4.1 Relational and logical operations

4.2 The if-else statement

5 loops

5.1 for loops

5.2 while loops

a advanced topic: the switch statement

b advanced topic: vectorisation

c additional exercises

c.1 Basic Concepts

c.2 Plotting

c.3 Scripts and Functions

c.4 Decision Making

c.5 Loops

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TheMATLABdesktop L I S T O F S C R E E N C A S T S

Exercise 1 Solutions

Variables and simple arrays

The dot operator

Indexing arrays

Creating a simple plot

Plotting experimental data

Basic Curve-fitting

Creating a simple script

Creating a function

The if-else statement

The for loop

The while loop

Exercise 1: Basic calculations L I S T O F E X E RC I S E S

Exercise 2: Variables and arrays

Exercise 3: Simple 2 d plotting

Exercise 4: 3 d plotting

Exercise 5: Scripts

Exercise 6: Functions

Exercise 7: Decision making

Exercise 8: Loops

Table 1 Arithmetic operations L I S T O F TA B L E S

Table 2 Element-by-element arithmetic operations

Table 3 Line styles in plots

Table 4 Colours in plots

Table 5 Function definitions, filenames, input and output variables

Table 6 Relational operators

Table 7 Logical operators

Table 8 Friction experiment results

Table 9 Results of a tension test on an aluminium specimen

of gases Table 10 Coefficients for the cubic equation for the heat capacity

An interactive introduction to MATLAB

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