MATLAB Manual for Advanced Engineering Mathematics

The goal of this manual is to familiarize the reader with methods of applied mathematics within a computing environment. The selected environment is MATLAB®, specifically, MATLAB Student Version Release 14. This manual may either accompany Applied Mathematics for Engineers, 4th edition by R. S. Esfandiari (Atlantis, 2007), or simply used as stand alone. The assumption here is that the reader has knowledge of basic programming techniques. Concepts such as variable assignment, iterative loops, and round-off error are important for the reader to understand. Information about these concepts can be found in the documentation provided with MATLAB. Most codes used in this manual are supplied on the accompanying CD. The code may be run by simply copying and pasting it to the MATLAB Command Window, thus eliminating the need for entering the code manually.