Matlab and Octave Programming for STEM Applications

by Cary Smith

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Textbook Matlab/Octave Programming for STEM Applications. This text emphasizes practical applications of MATLAB in engineering, physics, mathematics and biology. Intended for California ENGR C-ID 220

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Oxnard College
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Engineering
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  1. Front Matter
  2. Front Matter
  3. TitlePage
  4. InfoPage
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Licensing
  7. TitlePage
  8. InfoPage
  9. Table of Contents
  10. Licensing
  11. Preface
  12. 1.1: Notes to the Instructor
  13. Authors and Sources
  14. Purpose of This Book
  15. How this Book Was Assembled
  16. Back Matter
  17. Index
  18. Glossary
  19. Detailed Licensing
  20. 1: Modeling, Simulation, and MATLAB’s Interpreter
  21. 1.1: Obtaining MATLAB and Octave
  22. 1.2: Modeling
  23. 1.3: A Glorified Calculator
  24. 1.3.1: log(), round(), floor(), and ceil() functions
  25. 1.3.2: Trigonometry Functions
  26. 1.4: MATLAB User Interface
  27. 1.5: Octave User Interface
  28. 1.6: Variables and Assignment Statements
  29. 1.6.1: More About Valid Variable Names
  30. 1.7: Clearing the Workspace, Readability Tips
  31. 1.8: Errors
  32. 1.9: Built-in Function Documentation
  33. 1.10: Chapter Review
  34. 1.11: Chapter 1 videos English and Espanol
  35. 1.12: Exercises
  36. 2: MATLAB/Octave Scripts
  37. 2.1: How to Create a Script File and Valid File Names
  38. 2.2: Your First Script
  39. 2.2.1: .mlx Live Editor Files
  40. 2.3: Examples of assignment scripts
  41. 2.4: Why Scripts?
  42. 2.5: The Fibonacci Sequence
  43. 2.6: Floating-Point Numbers
  44. 2.7: Scientific Notation for Large and Small Numbers
  45. 2.8: Number formats
  46. 2.9: Complex Numbers
  47. 2.10: Script Comments
  48. 2.11: Script Documentation
  49. 2.12: Assignment and Equality
  50. 2.13: Understanding Editor Warning and Error messages
  51. 2.14: Debugging Directory Errors
  52. 2.15: Chapter Review
  53. 2.16: Chapter 2 Scripts videos English and Espanol
  54. 2.17: Exercises
  55. 2.17.1: More Exercises
  56. 3: for Loops, Ploting Points, Sequences, and Series
  57. 3.1: Updating Variables
  58. 3.2: Bug Taxonomy
  59. 3.3: Absolute and Relative Error
  60. 3.4: for Loops
  61. 3.4.1: for Loop Supplemental Material
  62. 3.5: Plotting Points
  63. 3.5.1: Create a 2D x-y Sine-Wave Plot with a for Loop
  64. 3.6: Sequences
  65. 3.6.1: Sequences Additional Material
  66. 3.7: Series
  67. 3.7.1: Series Additional Material
  68. 3.8: Generalization
  69. 3.9: Incremental Development
  70. 3.10: for Loop Incremental Development Exercise
  71. 3.11: Chapter Review
  72. 3.12: Chapter 3 for loop Videos in English and Espanol
  73. 3.13: Exercises
  74. 4: Vectors
  75. 4.1: Creating Vectors
  76. 4.2: Methods to Create Vectors in MATLAB
  77. 4.3: Vector Arithmetic
  78. 4.4: Selecting Elements
  79. 4.5: Indexing Errors
  80. 4.6: Vectors and Sequences
  81. 4.7: disp() and num2str() Functions and Concatenation
  82. 4.8: Plotting Vectors
  83. 4.8.1: Plotting Vectors Additional Material
  84. 4.9: Recursive for Loops
  85. 4.10: Common Vector Operations
  86. 4.11: Common Vector Functions
  87. 4.12: Chapter Review
  88. 4.13: Chapter 4 Vector Videos In English and Espanol
  89. 4.14: Exercises
  90. 5: User-Defined Functions
  91. 5.1: Name Collisions
  92. 5.2: Defining Functions
  93. 5.2.1: Function Case Study (Lambert)
  94. 5.3: Function Documentation
  95. 5.4: Naming Functions
  96. 5.4.1: Function Names and MATLAB Keywords
  97. 5.5: Functions With Multiple Input Variables
  98. 5.5.1: Multiple Inputs Examples and Exercises
  99. 5.5.2: Mutiple Inputs Example- Ideal Gas law (Lambert)
  100. 5.6: Functions with Multiple Outputs
  101. 5.7: Matlab Functions with No Inputs
  102. 5.8: Matlab Functions with No Outputs
  103. 5.9: Matlab Functions with No Inputs and No Outputs
  104. 5.10: Functions with variable numbers of inputs or outputs
  105. 5.11: How Functions Work
  106. 5.12: Chapter Review
  107. 5.13: Chapter 5 Function videos English and Espanol
  108. 5.14: Exercise
  109. 6: Conditionals Part 1
  110. 6.1: Relational Operators
  111. 6.1.1: Relational Operators List
  112. 6.1.2: Octave vs. MATLAB--not equal, end, endif, endfunction
  113. 6.2: if Statement
  114. 6.3: if, else, elseif
  115. 6.4: Incremental Development
  116. 6.5: Logical Functions
  117. 6.6: Nested for Loops
  118. 6.7: Putting It Together
  119. 6.8: Encapsulation and Generalization
  120. 6.9: Adding a continue Statement
  121. 6.10: Chapter Review
  122. 6.11: Chapter 6 if-logic videos English and Espanol
  123. 6.12: Exercise
  124. 7: Conditionals Part 2- Series, Switch Logic, Error Checking, and While Loops
  125. 7.1: if, elseif, else with Error Checking
  126. 7.2: Flowcharts
  127. 7.3: The input() Function
  128. 7.4: Compound Logical Operators
  129. 7.4.1: Compound if, elseif Logic Examples
  130. 7.5: Working with Conditions
  131. 7.6: Shortcut and, or, Logical Operations
  132. 7.7: for loops with break Logic
  133. 7.8: 'while' Loops
  134. 7.9: 'switch' Logic
  135. 7.10: The find() function
  136. 7.11: Chapter 7 Conditionals, Part 2, Videos English and Espanol
  137. 8: User-defined Functions of Vectors
  138. 8.1: Functions and Vectors
  139. 8.1.1: Built-in MATLAB Functions of Vectors
  140. 8.1.2: User-Defined Functions of Vectors Examples and Exercises
  141. 8.2: Computing with Vectors
  142. 8.3: Debugging in Four Acts
  143. 8.3.1: Debugging Theorems all in 1 Place
  144. 8.4: Chapter Review
  145. 8.5: Chapter 8 Function Videos English and Espanol
  146. 9: MATLAB Random Number and Statistics Functions
  147. 9.1: MATLAB Random Number Functions
  148. 9.2: MATLAB Statistics Functions
  149. 9.3: Statistical Plots
  150. 9.4: Random Number Applications
  151. 9.5: Chapter 9 Random Number Videos English and Espanol
  152. 10: Interpolation and Curve Fitting
  153. 10.1: Linear Interpolation
  154. 10.1.1: Linear Interpolation Problem Set
  155. 10.2: Nonlinear Interpolation
  156. 10.3: Linear and Polynomial Curve Data Fitting
  157. 10.4: Polynomial Fitting Problem Set
  158. 10.5: Interactive Fitting Tools
  159. 10.6: Chapter 10 Curve Fitting Videos in English and Espanol
  160. 11: Zero Finding and Fourier Transforms
  161. 11.1: Solving Nonlinear Equations with fzero()
  162. 11.2: fzero() Examples and Exercises
  163. 11.3: Using fzero() to find the intersection of 2 functions
  164. 11.4: Subfunctions
  165. 11.5: Anonymous (or In-Line) Functions
  166. 11.6: Debugging- More Name Collisions
  167. 11.7: Fourier Transforms
  168. 11.8: Chapter Review
  169. 11.9: Chapter 11 Zero finding Videos English and Espanol
  170. 11.10: Exercises
  171. 12: MATLAB Matrices (Arrays)
  172. 12.1: Creating Matrices and Arrays
  173. 12.3: Common Matrix Functions
  174. 12.4: Matrix Indexing
  175. 12.5: Matrix Operations, Introduction
  176. 12.6: Matrix Tables and Nested Loops
  177. 12.7: Dot Product
  178. 12.8: Cross Product and Torque
  179. 12.9: Chapter 12 Matrix Videos English and Espanol
  180. 13: Linear Algebra
  181. 13.1: Basic Matrix Multiplication
  182. 13.2: Matrix Multiplication Applications
  183. 13.3: Matrix Inverse, Rank and Determinant
  184. 13.4: Solving Systems of Equations
  185. 13.5: Systems of Equations Examples and Exercises
  186. 13.6: Over-Determined Systems of Equations
  187. 13.7: Chapter 13 Linear Algebra Videos in English and Espanol
  188. 14: Advanced Plotting
  189. 14.1: scatter, scatter3
  190. 14.2: Plot 3D Surface and Contour Plots
  191. 14.3: Advanced Plot Formatting
  192. 14.4: Log plots
  193. 14.5: Subplots
  194. 14.6: Chapter 14 Advanced Plotting Videos in English and Espanol
  195. 15: Formatted Input and Output
  196. 15.1: sprintf() and fprintf(), Introduction
  197. 15.2: fprintf() to a file
  198. 15.3: Reading from an Excel file in MATLAB and Octave
  199. 15.4: Chapter 15 Videos English and Espanol
  200. 16: MATLAB Structures and Data Types
  201. 16.1: Numeric data types
  202. 16.2: Comparing Character Strings
  203. 16.3: table Data Type
  204. 16.4: struct Data Type
  205. 16.4.1: struct Examples and Exercises
  206. 16.5: cell array
  207. 16.6: Chapter 16 Data Types Videos in English and Espanol
  208. 17: Top-Down Design, Agile Software Development, and Object-Oriented Programming in MATLAB
  209. 17.1: Top-Down Design
  210. 17.2: Agile Software Development
  211. 17.3: Object-Oriented Programming, Part 1
  212. 17.4: Object-Oriented Programming, Part 2
  213. 17.5: Chapter 17 Videos in English and Espanol
  214. 18: Integration and Differentiation
  215. 18.1: Integration- Computing the Area Under a Curve
  216. 18.1.1: Problem Set
  217. 18.1.2: The integral() function
  218. 18.2: Numerical Differentiation
  219. 18.3: Chapter 18 Differentiation and Integration Videos in English and Espanol
  220. 19: Ordinary Differential Equations
  221. 19.1: Functions and Files
  222. 19.2: Differential Equations
  223. 19.3: Euler’s Method
  224. 19.4: Implementing Euler’s Method
  225. 19.5: Solving ODEs with ode45
  226. 19.5.1: ODE45 Examples and Exercises
  227. 19.6: Time Dependence
  228. 19.7: What Could Go Wrong?
  229. 19.8: Labeling Axes
  230. 19.9: Chapter Review
  231. 19.10: Chapter 19 ODE Videos in English and Espanol
  232. 19.11: Exercise
  233. 20: Symbolic Processing
  234. Back Matter
  235. Detailed Licensing
  236. MATLAB Functions, Commands and Special Characters
  237. Index
  238. Glossary
  239. Detailed Licensing