Fundamental Concepts of MATLAB Programming

Preface

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
• Conclusion

Expressions and Basic Commands of MATLAB

• Objective
• Introduction
• Expression checking
• Valid expression
• Invalid expression
• Notations
• Comments
• Basic commands
• Conclusion

Data Types, Variables and Operators

• Introduction
• Type conversion
• Variable
• Some important commands
• Operators in MATLAB
• Set operations
• Conclusion

Decision Control Statements

• Objective
• Introduction
• Types of decision making
• Conclusion

Loops Control Statements

• Objective
• Introduction
• Types of loops
• The jumping statements
• Conclusion

Vectors

• Objective
• Introduction
• Types of vectors
• Accessing value from vector
• Deletion of data from vector
• Basic operations of vector
• Appending of vectors
• Magnitude of vector
• The dot product of a vector
• Scalar operations of vectors
• Conclusion

Matrix

• Objective
• Introduction
• Accessing value from the matrix
• Deletion of data from the matrix
• Concatenation of matrices
• Identity and inverse of matrices
• Scalar operations of matrix
• Determinant of matrix
• Transpose of matrix
• Conclusion

Arrays

• Objective
• Introduction
• Why array?
• Types of array
• Declarations and initialization of an array
• Predefined functions in an array
• Some other functions
• Multi-dimensional arrays
• Sorting of arrays
• Accessing data in cell arrays
• Conclusion

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

Functions

• Objective
• Introduction
• Types of functions
• Conclusion

Data Import and Export

• Objective
• Introduction
• Why Data Import?
• Low-level file I/O
• Import text data files with low-level I/O
• Data export
• Conclusion

Plotting a Graph

• Objective
• Introduction
• Types of plot
• Various commands and functions
• The view() function
• Conclusion

Graphics

• Objective
• Introduction
• Types of graphics objects
• Object properties
• Using the handle
• Conclusion

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
• Derivatives of logarithmic, exponential and trigonometric functions
• Maxima and minima of a curve
• The solution of differential equations
• Integration
• Definite integral using MATLAB
• Calculations of polynomials
• Roots of the polynomials
• Polynomial curve fitting
• Conclusion