A Guide to MATLAB for ME 160 (Bray and Montazami)
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This textbook provides an introduction to the MATLAB programming language for first-year mechanical engineering students enrolled in ME 160. Designed to follow the content taught in class, this book provides a supplement to in-class learning that is presented at a level that is understandable to a student with no experience coding before coming to Iowa State University.
Front Matter
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Basic Commands in MATLAB
- 3: MATRIX Operations
- 4: Writing Scripts
- 5: Commands
- 6: Graphing in MATLAB
- 7: Graphical User Interface
- 8: Functions and Function Handles
- 9: Inputting and Outputting Data
- 10: Projects
- 11: Appendix A- Additional MATLAB Resources
- 12: Appendix B- A commentary on this work
Back Matter
Thumbnail: A three-dimensional surface plot of the unnormalized sinc function. (Public Domain; via Wikipedia)