Understanding MATLAB A Textbook for Beginners

This book is mainly for students and professionals who are trying to learn MATLAB through self-study. This book can be used by anyone who is completely unacquainted with MATLAB. In a step-by-step process, this book tries to teach the readers how to write MATLAB programs in order to solve problems. The book intends to acquaint the user with a number of inbuilt functions and features of MATLAB with specific illustrations in the areas of science and technology. MATLAB is a high level computing language, which can be used in a wide range of areas. A large number of examples have been included in this book. Plots, matrix calculations, vectors, loops, functions, solving linear equations, integration, differentiation, ordinary differential equations, curve fitting, image processing, animation and a lot of other areas have been dealt with in this book. Contents: Introduction / Arrays, Strings and Data Structures / Plotting / Loops and Functions / Solving a System of Linear Equations / Integration, Differentiation and Ordinary Differential Equations / Statistical Functions, Line and Polynomial Fitting / Image Processing, Animation, Movies and Sound / Bibliography / Index.