Essential MATLAB and Octave

Content: MATLAB(R) and Octave: The Essential Essentials MATLAB and Octave Starting Up and Closing Down Using MATLAB and Octave as a Calculator Numbers and Formats Variables Suppressing Output Built-In Functions Characters, String and Text Saving a Session Summary Exercises Vectors and Vector Operators Vectors The Colon Notation (:) Extracting Parts of a Vector Column Vectors Transposition of Vectors Vector Multiplication Scalar Product, * Dot-Star Product, .* Dot-Division of Vectors, ./ Dot-Power of Vectors, .^ Summary Exercises Matrices and Matrix Operators Size of a Matrix Transpose of a Matrix Special Matrices Diagonal Matrices Building Matrices Tabulating Functions Extracting Parts of Matrices Matrix Multiplication Sparse Matrices Systems of Linear Equations Summary Exercises Plotting Plotting Simple Functions Information in the Plot Multiple Plots Holding Figures Subplots Formatted Text Changing Axes Plotting Surfaces More Plots Summary Exercises Programming MATLAB(R) and Octave Script Files Flow of a Programme Loops in MATLAB and Octave Conditionals: If... Then... Else... Procedures and Functions with m-Files Built-In Functions Function Handles Debugging Timing Reading and Writing Files Summary Exercises MATLAB(R) and Octave in Action Linear Algebra: Linear Combinations Linear Algebra: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors Portfolio Risk: Minimum Variance and Target Portfolios Differential Equations: Predator-Prey Model Signal Processing: Fourier Transform Physics: The Wave Equation Quantum Mechanics: The Schrodinger Equation and Pauli Matrices Summary Exercises Differences between MATLAB(R) and Octave Bibliography Index