Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists (3rd ed.)

This book is an essential guide to MATLAB as a problem solving tool.

This guide presents MATLAB both as a mathematical tool and a programming language, giving a concise and easy to master introduction to its potential and power.

Based on a teach-yourself approach, the fundamentals of MATLAB are illustrated throughout with many examples from a wide range of different but familiar scientific and engineering areas, as well as from everyday life.

Stressing the importance of a structured approach to problem solving, the text gives a step-by-step method for developing algorithms and top-down designed programs.This book features: numerous simple exercises give hands-on learning; a chapter on algorithm development and program design; common errors and pitfalls highlighted; concise introduction to useful topics for solving problems in later engineering and science courses: vectors as arrays, arrays of characters, GUIs, advanced graphics, simulation and numerical methods; a new chapter on dynamical systems showing how a structured approach is used to solve more complex problems; text and graphics in four colour; and, extensive teacher support which include solutions manual, extra problems, multiple choice questions, and PowerPoint slides. "Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists" is an ideal textbook for a first course on MATLAB or an engineering problem solving course using MATLAB, as well as a self-learning tutorial for students and professionals expected to learn and apply MATLAB for themselves.