Getting started with MATLAB : a quick introduction for scientists and engineers

This new version of our book is designed to maintain our compatibility with the most recent version of this popular software. We will also make changes reflecting the reviewer's suggestions. The changes will be minor and are mostly the addition of problems and examples.MATLAB, a software package for high-performance numerical computation and visualization, is one of the most widely used tools across engineering departments today. Its broad appeal lies in its interactive environment with hundreds of built-in functions for technical computation, graphics, and animation. Further, it provides easy extensibility with its own high-level programming language. Getting Started with MATLAB6: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers is intended to get thereader started in MATLAB quickly and pleasantly. Designed to get the reader up and running with MATLAB in a few short hours, chapters,one and and two provide a thorough introduction to the basics and five self-guided lessons. Remaining chapters cover useful and interesting elementary, advanced and specialMATLAB functions. This book will be appropriate in any college level course where MATLAB is either going to be taught or used to solve problems.