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MATLAB for Engineers: United States Edition Paperback – 17 November 2008

by Holly Moore (Author)
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MATLAB for Engineers, 2e is ideal for Freshman or Introductory courses in Engineering and Computer Science.

With a hands-on approach and focus on problem solving, this introduction to the powerful MATLAB computing language is designed for students with only a basic college algebra background. Numerous examples are drawn from a range of engineering disciplines, demonstrating MATLAB’s applications to a broad variety of problems.

Note: This book is included in Prentice Hall’s ESource series. ESource allows professors to select the content appropriate for their freshman/first-year engineering course. Professors can adopt the published manuals as is or use ESource’s website www.prenhall.com/esource to view and select the chapters they need, in the sequence they want. The option to add their own material or copyrighted material from other publishers also exists.

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  1. Print length
    624 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Pearson
  4. Publication date
    17 November 2008
  5. Dimensions
    20.24 x 2.12 x 25.15 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0136044220
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0136044222
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"As the author states in the ‘About This Book’ section, many students entering the engineering field today do not have a background to programming, let alone the knowledge of a specific program such as MATLAB. This text is an excellent tutorial for them to not only understand the MATLAB environment, but how it can be helpful for solving engineering, chemistry, and/or physics-related problems." ― Richard Clark, Virginia Western Community College

"The end-of-the-chapter homework problems are very good. I really like the fact they are from various engineering fields that the student’s are likely to do later on. Just like the illustrative examples in the chapters, the homework problems are very interesting." ― Ram Narasimhan, University of Miami

"This book really stood out when I was making my textbook selection. I really like the in-depth examples in the text as well as the concept-check practice exercises." ― April Andreas, McLennan Community College

"I very, very much like the selection of problems. I can always find something interesting and challenging." ― April Andreas, McLennan Community College

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 2 edition (17 November 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 624 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0136044220
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0136044222
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.24 x 2.12 x 25.15 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 17

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Dolores
5.0 out of 5 stars Cumple de sobra con lo que se indica en la reseña
Reviewed in Spain on 3 October 2014
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Para ser un libro de segunda mano está muy cuidado. Llegó en el tiempo estimado. Perfecto para el uso que se le va a dar de consulta.
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H. Stewart
5.0 out of 5 stars A good starting point and basic reference
Reviewed in the United States on 14 April 2010
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If you have just received MATLAB, have it on the office/school computer and never use it, or use it so infrequently that you do not recall some of the basic commands this is a near perfect book for you. While the book has many examples using physics, finance or other problems, they are there primarily as examples on how to set up MATLAB to solve the problem and go on to produce presentable outputs and plots.

After just a day or two you will forever resist typing complex formulas into a tiny MS Excel cell to produce a screen full of data that you then must capture into a graph. In MATLAB the same problem is similar to typing it out in a few lines of plain English, hit the return key, and have the table or graph simply appear, save it as a jpg and insert it into a MS Office application.

In summary, if you have a mathematical expression or need to construct a problem ranging from simple to somewhat complex, and want a guide on how to quickly lay it into MATLAB and get a result this is the book for you. If you use MATLAB daily and are comfortable with it, want to create GUIs, need to capture streaming data for real time analysis, etc this is the wrong book.
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Mitchellan Janke
4.0 out of 5 stars Ok Book
Reviewed in the United States on 23 August 2011
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This book was required for a course. If you are a MATLAB beginner this book does cover the topic quite well. It starts out quite basic and moves to some more interesting areas. If you have done much programming/scripting before you will find MATLAB with this book a breeze.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Solid book on MATLAB basics!
Reviewed in the United States on 24 February 2010
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Having forgotten most of what I had learned previously in MATLAB, this book was just what I needed to rebuild that lost foundation. It starts from the basics and progressively builds your knowledge base, chapter-by-chapter. Having noted that, if you have had any previous programming experience, this book will serve to familiarize you with the fundamental MATLAB commands. If you have had no prior programming experience, consider this a crash course; however, if you have never programmed or used MATLAB before, BUY THIS BOOK. It is a lot more detailed than just about any other book out there, and is aimed specifically at the beginning user (whereas other books either assume you have the basics or gloss over them).

As another person commented, this book does not have any advanced material on using the software, so if that is your need, you would be better served by another book (probably a book on the subject matter you are looking to apply this software to; a good many may even have sample code) - this one is for newbies or someone looking to have a solid reference on the basic commands/functions available within MATLAB. To that end, it serves its audience superbly.
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Gul
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United States on 6 September 2011
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Great book, especially for those with no programming experience. It might lack advanced level of techniques there, but it is a perfect learning source for beginners in Matlab. Technically speaking, I did not even need to have in class lectures, this book is self explanatory and you can teach yourself
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