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Labs on Tuesday 31st March and Tuesday 20th April

April 24th, 2009

Hi

Forgot to talk about our labs in the last post. As a technical maths course we wanted to introduce using Matlab too. Ciaran O’Sullivan has put together some very nice notes on

• Lab1: Introduction to Matlab: variables, arrays and plotting 
• Lab2: Introduction to Matlab: Script Files
• Lab3: Introduction to Matlab: Function Definition Files

and my students are currently working through Lab1 and Lab2. Most students seem to be getting through this fairly well and we hope to run a second assignment in the lab shortly.

There are lots of other Matlab notes out there are various levels. Another set which could suit this level of student is

• Introduction to Matlab for Engineering Students at North Western University by David Houcque

At a slightly higher level (level 7, 8?) this looks pretty good, if a little dense

• Matlab notes by David F. Griffiths at the University of Dundee, Scotland

Part of our learning outcomes for the maths modules is to introduce programming structures and we are going to do it through Matlab. For this semester it is “if…then..else” and we will use that structure to introduce piecewise defined functions in Lab3.

If you know any other appropriate Matlab notes, or can contribute some yourself, please get in touch via a comment.

regards

Paul

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