MATLAB is a key computational resource for engineering. Below are links to a number of online tutorials for MATLAB. 

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This broad educational work by Dr. Jon Sticklen, developer of these educational screen movies has been supported by a gift from the MathWorks. 

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1. Movie on computational models in general
   
   
2. First open of MATLAB and function creation
• First open of MATLAB and empty function file creation
• Building your first MATLAB function
• Building a function with multiple inputs
• Building a function with multiple inputs and multiple outputs
  
  
3. Scalar operations
   
   
4. Numerical Vector operations
• main screen movie for vector operations
  
  
5. Numerical Array operations
• main screen movie for array operations
  
  
• demo on cell-by-cell array operations and on matrix operations (emphasis: matrix multiply)
  
  
6.  Putting Comments in User Defined Functions - Items to include
   
   
7. Using MATLAB Help
   
   
8. 2D Plotting with MATLAB
• intro to 2-D Plotting
  
  
• demo on using ezplot for symbolically plotting 2-D functions
• demos on using plot for 2-D numerical plots and for plotting 2-D functions
  
  
• labeling plots under program control (title and axis labels)
• line specs and properties (solid, dashed, ... color, thickness)
• legends
• annotations (putting explanatory text boxes on a plot)
• using ginput (getting data out of a plot)
  
  
• interactive editing of a plot
  
  
• demo of overlay plots
• demo of subplots
  
  
9. 3-D Plotting with MATLAB
• intro to 3-D plotting
  
  
•  demo 3-D line plotting (explot3 and plot3)
  
  
• demo surface and contour plot of a function  (ezsurf, ezmesh, ezcontour - symbolic versions ... meshgrid to create a GRID in the XY plane ... surf, mesh, and contour - numerical versions)
  
  
• demo surface and contour plots of 3-D data (three variable datasets: meshgrid and griddata to create a GRID in the XY plane and to interpolate data to it ... surf, mesh, contour )
  
  
10. Programming constructs (IF, FOR)
    
    
    

This area is under active construction. There is a major section on symbolic computing in MATLAB that will be added soon as well as a section on numerical solutions to ODEs. Please visit again.