FF505 - Computational Science - MATLAB Section

This page collects material for the three sessions of Introduction to Matlab and relative exercises for the training phase and the study phase in groups.

Schedule


Week	5	6	7	8	10	11	12
Man, 09-12		Training (IMADA Terminalrum)	MATLAB (IMADA Terminalrum)
Tir, 09-12	MATLAB (IMADA Terminalrum)	LinAlg (IMADA Terminalrum)
Ons, 10-13				Appl. (IMADA Terminalrum)	Appl. (IMADA Terminalrum)		Appl. (IMADA Terminalrum)
Ons, 12-15	LinAlg (IMADA Terminalrum)	MATLAB (IMADA Terminalrum)	LinAlg (IMADA Terminalrum)
Tor, 09-12						Appl. (IMADA Terminalrum)
Fre, 09-12		Training (IMADA Terminalrum)	Training (IMADA Terminalrum)	Training (IMADA Terminalrum)	Training (IMADA Terminalrum)	Training (IMADA Terminalrum)	Training (IMADA Terminalrum)

You can import the schedule in your calendar using the iCalendar file at this URL

MATLAB Sessions

	Date	Slides	Resources + References from Matlab Help	References
1	27.01.2015	Course/Linux/MATLAB Intro, Matrix Calculus	[ Intro ] [ Accounts ] [ Linux ] [ Remote connection ] [ Videos ]; Getting Started -> Quick Start
2	04.02.2015	Matrix Algebra, Linear Systems	Getting Started -> Language Fundamentals Mathematics -> Linear Algebra	[Notes in BB] [Le ch 1] [Kr ch 7,8]
3	09.02.2015	Control Flow, Functions, Plots	Getting Started -> Programming -> Control Flow Getting Started -> Graphics User's Guide -> Graphics	[Kr ch 1,11,21]

Training

Week	Exercises
5	Set 1
6	Set 2
7	Set 3

Resources

Matlab:

Access to MATLAB:

IMADA terminalrum
Free Trial (expires on February 25, 2015 - but an SDU site license is on the way)
Student edition

Matlab tutorials:

Getting Started with Matlab from the Matlab documentation

For emacs users only: If you plan to run Matlab in emacs, here are matlab.el, and a helpful .emacs file.

Books:

[Kr] Erwin Kreyszig. Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Tenth Edition. Wiley. 2011.
[Le] Steven J. Leon. Linear Algebra with Applications. Ninth Edition. Prentice Hall

Freeware Alternatives to Matlab

Python

A very versatile programming language. The syntax is diffrerent from Matlab but learning this language may be a very good investment for all future interactions with computers.

Python Official Page
SciPy a package for mathematics, science, and engineering.
A introductory book: Computing with Python: An introduction to Python for science and engineering Claus Führer, Jan Erik Solem, Olivier Verdier

SciLab

A clone of Matlab that uses the same syntax and supports all systems.

Download from the official page

Octave

A clone of Matlab that uses the same syntax. Available only for Linux.

Date: 2015-02-11T18:10+0100

Author: marco

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