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Contents

• Introduction
• MATLAB Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• Using the Command Window
• Comments
• Variables
• Scalar Arithmetic
• Predefined Constants
• Built-in Math Functions
• User-Defined Functions
• Arrays
• Matrices
• Access to the array elements
• Slicing
• By-element operations
• Matrix transpose
• Matrix determinant
• Matrix inverse
• Matrix eigenvalues and eigenvectors
• Solution of systems of linear equations
• Polynomials
• Operations on polynomials
• Curve fitting with Polynomials
• Two-Dimensional Plots
• fplot function
• plot function
• Logarithmic plots
• Bar plots
• Subplots
• Overlaying plots
• Three-Dimensional Plots
• Contour plots
• Contour plot within 3 axes
• Surface plot
• Programming Statements
• MATLAB Scripts (m-files)
• Conditional if statement
• if-elseif-else structure
• Switch-case statement
• While loop
• For loop
• Nested loops
• Continue statement
• Break statement
• Input function
• Formatted Output
• Input and Output Using Data Files
• Basic Statistics Functions
• Sums and products
• Maximum and minimum
• Sorting data
• Arithmetic mean
• Mode
• Median
• Range
• Standard deviation
• Symbolic Mathematics
• Solution of nonlinear equations
• Differentiation
• Integration
• Finite and infinite sums
• Taylor series
• Numerical Methods
• Differentiation
• Integration (Quadrature)
• Roots of nonlinear functions
• Ordinary differential equations