MATLAB for Engineering Applications is a simple, concise book designed to be useful for beginners and to be kept as a reference. MATLAB is a globally available standard computational tool for engineers and scientists. This text is intended as a stand-alone introduction to MATLAB and can be used in an introductory course, as a self-study text, or as a supplementary text. The text’s material is based on the author’s experience in teaching a required two-credit semester course devoted to MATLAB for engineering freshmen.

This title will be available in Connect, but is not available with SmartBook. Instructor Resources available for this title include: Solutions Manual, Presentation Tools Table (includes Lecture PowerPoints and Image Bank), MATLAB Files, MATLAB Live Scripts.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 An Overview of MATLAB

CHAPTER 2 Numeric, Cell, and Structure Arrays

CHAPTER 3 Functions

CHAPTER 4 Programming with MATLAB

CHAPTER 5 Advanced Plotting

CHAPTER 6 Model Building and Regression

CHAPTER 7 Statistics, Probability, and Interpolation

CHAPTER 8 Linear Algebraic Equations

CHAPTER 9 Numerical Methods for Calculus and Differential Equations

CHAPTER 10 Simulink

CHAPTER 11 Symbolic Processing with MATLAB

CHAPTER 12 Projects with MATLAB

APPENDIX A Guide to Commands and Functions in This Text

APPENDIX B Animation and Sound in MATLAB

APPENDIX C References

About the Author

William J. Palm III is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Rhode Island.