Essential Matlab for Engineers and Scientists: Edition 4

Daniel T. Valentine · Brian H. Hahn

Sep 2009 · Academic Press

About this ebook

The essential guide to MATLAB as a problem solving tool This text presents MATLAB both as a mathematical tool and a programming language, giving a concise and easy to master introduction to its potential and power. The fundamentals of MATLAB are illustrated throughout with many examples from a wide range of familiar scientific and engineering areas, as well as from everyday life. The new edition has been updated to include coverage of Symbolic Math and SIMULINK. It also adds new examples and applications, and uses the most recent release of Matlab.

• New chapters on Symbolic Math and SIMULINK provide complete coverage of all the functions available in the student edition of Matlab
• New: more exercises and examples, including new examples of beam bending, flow over an airfoil, and other physics-based problems
• New: A bibliography provides sources for the engineering problems and examples discussed in the text
• A chapter on algorithm development and program design
• Common errors and pitfalls highlighted

About the author

Daniel T. Valentine Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus and was Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York. He was also Affiliate Director of the Clarkson Space Grant Program of the New York NASA Space Grant Consortium, a program that provided support for undergraduate and graduate research. His Ph.D. degree is in fluid Mechanics from the Catholic University of America. His BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering are from Rutgers University. Dr. Valentine is also co-author of Aerodynamics for Engineering Students (Butterworth Heinemann).

Brian Hahn was a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town. In his career, Brian wrote more than 10 books for teaching programming languages to beginners.