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Preface

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This book arose from notes written for matlab training courses run
within the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation.
The book is in two parts. Each part was originally a two-day course,
designed assuming that students were seated at a computer with matlab
running.
Part 1 is an introductory course suitable for those with no experience
at all with matlab. It is written in a self contained way; if you go
through the notes, all the new commands and ideas are explained as
they are introduced.
Part 2 is a more advanced course suitable for those who are already
familiar with the basics of matlab. It covers a variety of topics, some
of which you may not be interested in; if so, you should be able to skip
that section without detriment to other sections.
You can get the m-files that accompany this book from the “Down-
load” section of the CRC Press web site (www.crcpress.com). The files
are available in zip or gzipped tar format, and can be extracted using
WinZip on a PC, or by using gunzip and tar on unix. You will need to
put them in a directory where matlab will be able to find them. You
can either use the cd command to move matlab’s working directory to
the directory you extract the files to, or add that directory to matlab’s
search path. (You can display matlab’s current working directory by

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