Last updated at 11:52 AM on 30 Sep 2008
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This page provides learning objectives and other supplementary iformation to support lectures in ME 352 during Fall 2007. Lectures are presented in reverse chronological information, i.e. the most recent lecture is listed first.
A separate page lists the MATLAB programming constructs, built-in variables, and special values that you need to know.
Yet another page provides code snippets for some common procedures in MATLAB.
Lecture on 29 September 2008
Reading: pp. 15-25, 63-68, 85-86, 93-98
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All students will need to use MATLAB to complete the first problem set. You do not need to buy MATLAB because it is available on all the computers on the College network. To use those computers you must first activate your MCECS computer account by following these steps:
Refer to the New User Support Page for additional information.
Also consult the Schedule for the help desk
Chapter 1 provides an overview to numerical analysis and the structure of the book. This is useful background information. It would be helpful to reread this chapter about midway through the quarter when the vocabulary will have more meaning.
Chapter 2 describes how to use MATLAB to perform interactive calculations. Plotting is also covered in Chapter 2.
Chapter 3 describes how to write MATLAB programs. In this first lecture we only considered the task of encapsulating a few MATLAB statements in an m-file. In the next class we'll examine input and output parameters in more detail.
Students are expected to have completed the following tasks in preparation of class meeting #2: