Fundamental Concepts of MATLAB Programming: From Learning the Basics to Solving a Problem with MATLAB

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgements
Preface
Errata
Table of Contents
1. Basics of MATLAB
    Objective
    Introduction
    Importance of MATLAB
    The MATLAB interface
    The Features of MATLAB
    The MATLAB paradigm
    Applications of MATLAB
    The MATLAB setup
    Some helpful screenshots
        Command window
        Current directory section
        Workspace section
        Command History section
    Conclusion
    Questions
2. Expressions and Basic Commands of MATLAB
    Objective
    Introduction
    Expression checking
    Valid expression
    Invalid expression
    Notations
        The colon (:) notation
    Comments
    Basic commands
        System commands
        I/O commands
    Conclusion
    Questions
3. Data Types, Variables and Operators
    Introduction
    Type conversion
    Variable
    Some important commands
        The clc command
        The who command
            The whos command
            The clear command
    Operators in MATLAB
        Types of operators
            The arithmetic operators
            The relational operators
            The logical operators
            The bitwise operations
    Set operations
    Conclusion
    Questions
4. Decision Control Statements
    Objective
    Introduction
    Types of decision making
        The if statements
    Conclusion
    Questions
5. Loops Control Statements
    Objective
    Introduction
    Types of loops
        The while loop
        The for loop
        The nested loop
    The jumping statements
        The break statement
        The continue statement
    Conclusion
    Questions
6. Vectors
    Objective
    Introduction
    Types of vectors
        Row vectors
        Column vectors
    Accessing value from vector
    Deletion of data from vector
    Basic operations of vector
        Addition of vectors
            Row wise addition
            Column wise addition
            Addition of two vectors
        Subtraction of vectors
            Row wise subtraction
            Column wise subtraction
            Subtraction of two vectors
        Multiplication of vectors
            Row wise multiplication
            Column wise multiplication
            Multiplications of two vectors
        Division of vectors
            Row wise division
            Column wise division
    Appending of vectors
        Types of append
            Row wise appending
            Column wise appending
    Magnitude of vector
    The dot product of a vector
    Scalar operations of vectors
        Transpose of vector
    Conclusion
    Questions
7. Matrix
    Objective
    Introduction
    Accessing value from the matrix
    Deletion of data from the matrix
        Deleting a column in a matrix
        Addition of matrices
            Row wise addition
            Column wise addition
            Addition of two matrices
        Subtraction of matrices
            Row wise subtraction
            Column wise subtraction
            Subtraction of two matrices
        Multiplication of matrices
            Row wise multiplication
            Column wise multiplication
            Multiplications of two matrices
        Division of matrices
            Row wise division
            Column wise division
    Concatenation of matrices
        Types of concatenation
            Horizontal concatenation
            Vertical concatenation
    Identity and inverse of matrices
        Identity
        Inverse
    Scalar operations of matrix
    Determinant of matrix
    Transpose of matrix
    Conclusion
    Questions
8. Arrays
    Objective
    Introduction
    Why array?
    Types of array
    Declarations and initialization of an array
        One dimensional array
        Two dimensional array
        Multi dimensional arrays
    Predefined functions in an array
        The zeros() function
        The ones() function
        The rand() function
        The magic() function
        The eye() function
    Some other functions
    Multi-dimensional arrays
    Sorting of arrays
        Simple sorting
        Row wise sorting
            Column wise sorting
    Accessing data in cell arrays
    Conclusion
    Questions
9. Strings
    Objective
    Introduction
    An array of character in rectangular form
    Functions of strings
    Arrays, functions for identifying parts of strings, find and replace substrings
    Functions for string comparison
    Some other functions
    Conclusion
    Questions
10. Functions
    Objective
    Introduction
        Definition
    Types of functions
        Predefined function
            Cell array functions
            Structure functions
            Histogram functions
            Logical functions
            Exponential and logarithmic functions
            Hyperbolic functions
            Complex functions
            Statistical functions
            Random number functions
            Numeric functions
            String functions
            Numerical methods
            Polynomial and regression functions
            Interpolation functions
            Root finding and minimization
            Numerical integration functions
            Numerical differentiation functions
            Predefined input functions
        User-defined function
            Syntax of user-defined function
    Conclusion
    Questions
11. Data Import and Export
    Objective
    Introduction
    Why Data Import?
        Array format
        Data format
        Clipboard format
    Low-level file I/O
    Import text data files with low-level I/O
        Outputting formatted data to a text file
    Data export
        Diary function
        dlmwrite function
        fprintf function
    Conclusion
    Questions
12. Plotting a Graph
    Objective
    Introduction
        Definition
    Types of plot
        2D plot
        3D plot
            Types of 3D plots
    Various commands and functions
        The hold command
            The line command
    The view() function
    Conclusion
    Questions
13. Graphics
    Objective
    Introduction
    Types of graphics objects
        Composite graphics objects
            Plot objects
            Annotation objects
            Group objects
            Transforming objects
    Object properties
    Using the handle
    Conclusion
    Questions
14. Basic Algebra in MATLAB
    Objective
    Introduction
    The solve( ) function
    The root( ) function
    The disp( ) function
    Solving linear equations
    Solving quadratic equations
    Solving higher order equations
    Expanding and collecting equations in MATLAB
    Factorization and simplification of algebraic expressions in MATLAB
    The calculus in MATLAB
    Solving limits
    Left and right sided limits
    Differential formations
        Basic rules of differential
    Derivatives of logarithmic, exponential and trigonometric functions
        Solution of higher order derivatives
    Maxima and minima of a curve
    The solution of differential equations
    Integration
        Indefinite integral using MATLAB
    Definite integral using MATLAB
    Calculations of polynomials
    Roots of the polynomials
    Polynomial curve fitting
    Conclusion
    Questions