title: A Guide to MATLAB: For Beginners and Experienced Users
author:  Brian R. Hunt 
description: "Major highlights of the book are completely transparent examples of classical yet always intriguing mathematical, statistical, engineering, economics, and physics problems. In addition, the book explains a seamless use with Microsoft Word for integrating MATLAB outputs with documents, reports, presentations, or other on-line processes. Advanced topics with examples include: Monte Carlo simulation, population dynamics, and Linear Programming. Overall, it is an outstanding textbook, and, likewise, should be an integral part of the technical reference shelf for most IT professionals. It is a great resource for wherever MATLAB is available!" <br />ACM Ubiquity<br /><br /><br />"A readable introduction to using MATLAB 7." <br />Ian Gladwell, Southern Methodist University for SIAM Review<br />
zlib_text: **CONTENTS**
  
   **Defining and Manipulating Matrices**
  
   **1**
  
   **Matrix Addition**
  
   **2**
  
   **Scalar Multiplication**
  
   **2**
  
   **Matrix Multiplication**
  
   **2**
  
   **Determinants, Inverses, and Transposes**
  
   **3**
  
   **Element-by-Element Operations**
  
   **5**
  
   **Built-in Functions**
  
   **6**
  
   **Defining and Graphing Functions**
  
   **7**
  
   **Superimposing and Labeling Graphs**
  
   **7**
  
   **Graphing With the Symbolic Toolbox**
  
   **8**
  
   **Matrix Eigenpair Computations**
  
   **9**
  
   **The Solution of Initial Value Problems**
  
   **13**
  
   **Symbolic Solutions Using dsolve**
  
   **13**
  
   **Homogeneous Linear Constant Coefficient Systems**
  
   **14**
  
   **and the Exponential Matrix**
  
   **Programming in MATLAB; Scripts and Functions**
  
   **16**
  
   **Solving Initial Value Problems Using Numerical Methods** **17**
  
   **Solving Initial Value Problems Using MATLAB’s** **22**
  
   **Built-in Numerical Methods**
  
   **Flowfields for First Order Scalar Equations**
  
   **24**
  
   **Direction Fields for Two-Dimensional Au