PRACTICAL MATLAB® FOR ENGINEERS PRACTICAL MATLAB

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Preface

Practical MATLAB® Applications for Engineers introduces the reader to the concepts of

MATLAB® tools used in the solution of advanced engineering course work followed by

engineering and technology students. Every chapter of this book discusses the course

material used to illustrate the direct connection between the theory and real-world appli-

cations encountered in the typical engineering and technology programs at most colleges.

Every chapter has a section, titled Background, in which the basic concepts are introduced

and a section in which those concepts are tested, with the objective of exploring a number

of worked-out examples that demonstrate and illustrate various classes of real-world prob-

lems and its solutions.

The topics include

Continuous and discrete signals

Sampling

Communication signals

DC (direct current) analysis

Transient analysis

AC (alternating current) analysis

Fourier series

Fourier transform

Spectra analysis

Frequency response

Discrete Fourier transform

Z-transform

Standard fi lters

IRR (infi nite impulse response) and FIR (fi nite impulse response) fi lters

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