MATLAB® Essentials

William Bober, PhD, received his BS in civil engineering from the City College of New York (CCNY), his MS in Engineering Science from Pratt Institute, and his PhD in Engineering Science and Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University. After receiving his PhD, he worked as an associate engineering physicist in the Applied Mechanics Department at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, New York. After leaving Cornell Labs, he was employed as an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) for 12 years; since leaving RIT, he has been an associate professor at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and more recently, in the Department of Civil Engineering there. Dr. Bober has coauthored several textbooks on Analytical and Numerical Methods with MATLAB.

"This book would be useful for students or working engineers interested in quickly learning about the fundamentals of MATLAB. It provides a crash course on programming in MATLAB and is a convenient reference guide to refresh those who have not used MATLAB for some time." - John J. Shea, IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, USA

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAuthorChapter 1 Computer Programming with MATLAB® for EngineersChapter 2 MATLAB® FundamentalsChapter 3 Conditional Operators, Built-in Functions with Vector Arguments, MATLAB®’s Interp1 Function, and Some Scalar and Vector OperationsChapter 4 Self-Written Functions and MATLAB®’s fminbnd FunctionChapter 5 Working with Characters and StringsChapter 6 Roots of Algebraic and Transcendental EquationsChapter 7 System of Algebraic, Linear EquationsChapter 8 Curve FittingChapter 9 Numerical IntegrationChapter 10 Numerical Integration of Ordinary Differential EquationsChapter 11 Boundary Value Problems of Ordinary Differential EquationsAppendixReview AnswersIndex