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1: Modeling, Simulation, and MATLAB’s Interpreter

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    The procedures to to obtain and install either MATLAB or Octave are in this section of "Front Matter":

    Obtaining_MATLAB_and_Octave

    Note from Carey Smith: The majority of the first chapters are from Allen Downey's OER book. (Details are in "Front Matter".) These first chapters introduce the basic skills needed to program and solve all sorts of problems in MATLAB. Later chapters applies these skills to modeling physical systems. This book covers many topics in addition to modeling physical systems. At the end of every chapter are videos if you want more help in understanding the material.

    Note from Allen Downey: Before we can build any models of physical systems, it’ll help to have a high-level understanding of what a model is. We’ll also need to familiarize ourselves with the tools we use to build them. In this chapter, we’ll look at the modeling process and introduce MATLAB, the programming language we’ll use to represent models and run . At the end of the chapter you’ll find exercises you can use to test your knowledge.

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