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Contents

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1. Introduction to MATLAB and Its Graphics Capabilities
1.1 Getting Started
1.2 Basic Algebraic Operations and Functions
1.3 Plotting Points
1.3.1 Axes Commands
1.3.2 Labeling a Graph
1.3.3 Plotting a Point in 3-D
1.4 M-files
1.5 MATLAB Simple Programming
1.5.1 Iterative Loops
1.5.2 If-Else-End Structures
1.6 Array Operations
1.7 Curve and Surface Plotting
1.7.1 x-y Parametric Plot
1.7.2 More Parametric Plots in 2-D
1.7.3 Plotting a 3-D Curve
1.7.4 Plotting a 3-D Surface
1.8 Polar Plots
1.9 Animation
1.10 Histograms
1.11 Printing and Saving Work in MATLAB
1.12 MATLAB Commands Review

2. Difference Equations
2.1 Simple Linear Forms
2.2 Amortization
2.3 An Iterative Geometric Construct: The Koch Curve
2.4 Solution of Linear Constant Coefficients Difference
Equations
2.4.1 Homogeneous Solution
2.4.2 Particular Solution
2.4.3 General Solution
2.5 Convolution-Summation of a First-Order System with
Constant Coefficients
2.6 General First-Order Linear Difference Equations*
2.7 Nonlinear Difference Equations
2.7.1 Computing Irrational Numbers
2.7.2 The Logistic Equation

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