MATLAB A Practical Introduction to Programming & Problem Solving Fourth Edition winner of a 2017 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) has been updated to reflect the functionality of the current version of MATLAB including the new H2 Graphics system It features new & revised end-of-chapter exercises more engineering applications to help the reader learn this software tool in context & a new section on object-oriented programming in MATLAB MATLAB has become the standard software tool for solving scientific & engineering problems due to its powerful built-in functions & its ability to program Assuming no knowledge of programming this book guides the reader through both programming & built-in functions to easily exploit MATLAB's extensive capabilities for tackling engineering problems The book starts with programming concepts such as variables assignments & selection statements moves on to loops & then solves problems using both the programming concept & the power of MATLAB In-depth coverage is given to inputoutput a topic fundamental to many engineering applications