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A Concise Introduction to Matlab Paperback – 31 Oct 2007

by William J. Palm III (Author)

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ISBN-13: 978-0073385839 ISBN-10: 0073385832 Edition: 1^st

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A Concise Introduction to Matlab is a simple, concise book designed to cover all the major capabilities of MATLAB that are useful for beginning students. Thorough coverage of Function handles, Anonymous functions, and Subfunctions. In addition, key applications including plotting, programming, statistics and model building are also all covered.

MATLAB is presently a globally available standard computational tool for engineers and scientists. The terminology, syntax, and the use of the programming language are well defined and the organization of the material makes it easy to locate information and navigate through the textbook.

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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition (31 October 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0073385832
ISBN-13: 978-0073385839
Product Dimensions: 19 x 1.8 x 23.4 cm
Boxed-product Weight: 662 g
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William J. Palm III a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Rhode Island, he helped develop an educational program of introduction to engineering based on MATLAB. He is the author of several books, including the System dynamics, published by McGraw-Hill and Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Dynamic Systems and Mechanical Vibration, both published by John Wiley.

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Ankur Dalasaniya

Fabulous

Reviewed in India on 30 July 2018

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The book is really useful & well written.

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UAAsian

Unless you've learnt or touched MATLAB before, this book is not for you

Reviewed in the United States on 8 July 2014

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I ordered this book for my engineering class that consisted of some MATLAB introductions. When I first got the book, it seemed quite intriguing and helpful, but not as helpful as I wanted it to be. The contents it includes are literally concise, so concise that some of the functionality of MATLAB and its functions are not understandable till you google it. What is worst is that, as other review stated, unless what you are looking for has been explained in the example, you probably won't find it. MATLAB itself is already a mess with its "unique" syntax and how it processes data and equations, this book barely provided the help and resource I needed to complete my assignments. I found myself constantly going back to the book, looking at my course videos, and then finally ended up on MATLAB website looking for clues. Despite this book being used widely by many professors who teaches MATLAB, I cannot find myself to like or get used to the book. The only part about this book that I can understand is the basic concepts it tries to teach. The basics is quite easy to grasp, however the later problems it presents for practice are not due to the lack of details and help it presents in the chapters.

Overall, for me at least, I think this book only deserve a three. to put it in simple terms:
Pro:
1) Good introduction to the basics.
2) Provides organized tables of functions that relates to the chapters, both in the chapters and the back of the book.
3) Provides examples to follow along.
Con:
1) Too concise, or rather ambiguous in some of the functions and syntax of MATLAB
2) Examples can be unhelpful toward some of the problems presented at the end of each chapter

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Hunter Morgan

School Book

Reviewed in the United States on 6 September 2012

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I bought this because it was required for an Engineering class. As is usual with educational books on software packages, this book exceeds the readability of the documentation, though good and extensive in its own right, and plots a good course through some of the basics and into some more specialized uses of the software. It makes a fine addition to your reference shelf if you use Matlab or Octave, as it often explains some of the details or context that the documentation leaves out. It is not a documentation replacement, but a good supplement, especially if you're new to the software.
Short story: if you want to read a book to teach you about Matlab or Octave, this will do nicely.
A Concise Introduction to Matlab

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S. Wyse

Great book, thank you!

Reviewed in the United States on 15 March 2020

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MATLAB programming book

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sarah

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on 25 March 2016

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Great price in good condition

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best_in_midwest

pretty good textbook

Reviewed in the United States on 5 November 2015

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Lots of examples, clearly written, organization is a little questionable but overall it's linear and sensible.

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Trevon

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on 28 September 2015

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great

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Cate

Good for basics

Reviewed in the United States on 3 July 2013

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Good for basics, but is not helpful when you're trying to use it as a reference for something that isn't explicitly written as an example.

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Abo Azzam

Brand New Excellent

Reviewed in the United States on 18 October 2010

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the book is very helpful and useful also easy to follow and very will organized

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