Matlab

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART 1. Introduction to Programming Using MATLAB

Chapter 1. Introduction to MATLAB

Contents

1.1 Getting into MATLAB

1.2 The MATLAB Desktop Environment

1.3 Variables and Assignment Statements

1.4 Expressions

1.5 Characters and Encoding

1.6 Vectors and Matrices

Summary

Chapter 2. Introduction to MATLAB Programming

Contents

2.1 Algorithms

2.2 Matlab scripts

2.3 Input and Output

2.4 Scripts with Input and Output

2.5 Scripts to Produce and Customize Simple Plots

2.6 Introduction to File Input/Output (Load and Save)

2.7 User-Defined Functions That Return a Single Value

Summary

Chapter 3. Selection Statements

Contents

3.1 Relational Expressions

3.2 The if Statement

3.3 The If-else Statement

3.4 Nested if-Else Statements

3.5 The switch statement

3.6 The menu function

3.7 The “is” functions in MATLAB

Summary

Chapter 4. Loop Statements

Contents

4.1 The for loop

4.2 Nested For Loops

4.3 While Loops

Summary

Chapter 5. Vectorized Code

Contents

5.1 Loops with Vectors and Matrices

5.2 Operations on Vectors and Matrices

5.3 Vectors and Matrices as Function Arguments

5.4 Logical Vectors

5.5 Vectorizing Code

5.6 Timing

Summary

Chapter 6. MATLAB Programs

Contents

6.1 More Types of User-Defined Functions

6.2 MATLAB Program Organization

6.3 Application: Menu-Driven Modular Program

6.4 Variable Scope

6.5 Debugging Techniques

Summary

Chapter 7. String Manipulation

Contents

7.1 Creating String Variables

7.2 Operations on Strings

7.3 The “is” functions for strings

7.4 Converting Between String and Number Types

Summary

Chapter 8. Data Structures

Contents

8.1 Cell Arrays

8.2 Structures

Summary

Chapter 9. Advanced File Input and Output

Contents

9.1 Lower-level File I/O Functions

9.2 Writing and reading spreadsheet files

9.3 Using MAT-files for Variables

Summary

Chapter 10. Advanced Functions

Contents

10.1 Anonymous Functions

10.2 Uses of Function Handles

10.3 Variable Numbers of Arguments

10.4 Nested Functions

10.5 Recursive Functions

Summary

PART 2. Advanced Topics for Problem Solving with MATLAB

Chapter 11. Advanced Plotting Techniques

Contents

11.1 Plot Functions

11.2 Animation

11.3 Three-Dimensional Plots

11.4 Customizing Plots

11.5 Handle Graphics and Plot Properties

11.6 Plot Applications

Summary

Chapter 12. Matrix Representation of Linear Algebraic Equations

Contents

12.1 Matrix Definitions

12.2 Matrix Solutions to Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations

Summary

Chapter 13. Basic Statistics, Sets, Sorting, and Indexing

Contents

13.1 Statistical Functions

13.2 Set Operations

13.3 Sorting

13.4 Index Vectors

13.5 Searching

Summary

Chapter 14. Sights and Sounds

Contents

14.1 Sound Files

14.2 Image Processing

14.3 Introduction to Graphical User Interfaces

Summary

Chapter 15. Advanced Mathematics

Contents

15.1 Fitting Curves to Data

15.2 Complex Numbers

15.3 Symbolic Mathematics

15.4 Calculus: Integration and Differentiation

Summary

Index