MATLAB Tutorial for Engineering

This document is written by Jitkomut Songsiri. The tutorial is mostly summarized from A. Gilat, MATLAB: an introduction with applications, 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

• Introduction
  • Command window
  • Figure window
  • Working in the command window
  • Start using MATLAB
  • Defining a variable
  • Controlling output format
• Elementary built-in functions
  • Exercise
• Arrays
  • Creating vectors
  • Creating matrices
  • Special matrices
  • Indexing techniques
  • Deleting and Adding Elements
  • Built-in functions for matrices
  • Array operations
  • Exercises
• Managing M-files
  • User-defined functions
  • Structure of a function file
  • Using a function file
  • Local and global variables
  • Anonymous Functions
  • Exercises
• Text strings
  • Creating character arrays
  • String conversion
  • Built-in commands for strings
  • Exercises
• Plotting graphs
  • Easy plots
  • Plot command
  • Formatting a plot
  • Plotting multiple graphs
  • Logarithmic Scales
  • Polar plots
  • Multiple plots on the same window
  • Multiple Figure Windows
  • Other types of plots (bar, histogram)
  • 3-D plots
  • Exercises
• Programming in MATLAB
  • Relational and logical operators
  • Conditional Statements
  • Loops
  • Exercises
• Polynomials
  • Representation
  • Value evaluation
  • Roots of a polynomial
  • Operations on polynomials
  • Derivatives of polynomials
• Additional data structures
  • Spare Arrays
  • Multidimensional Arrays
  • Cell Arrays
  • Structure Arrays
• Problems in Engineering
  • Solving linear equations
  • Linear least-squares
  • Probability and Statistics
  • Optimization
• Dynamical Systems
  • Short review on dynamical systems
  • Linear systems and examples on chemical processes
  • ODE solvers for nonlinear differential equations
  • Phase portrait
  • Exercises
• Control System Toolbox
  • Creating LTI objects
  • Conversion between state-space and transfer function
  • Time-domain analysis
  • Frequency-domain analysis
  • Simulink diagram