Applications - A Guide to MATLAB for Beginners and Experienced Users - page 136

Chapter 9
Applications
In this chapter, we present examples showing you how to apply MATLAB
to problems in several different disciplines. Eachexample is presented as a
MATLAB M-book. These M-books are illustrations of the kinds of polished,
integrated, interactive documents that you can create with MATLAB, as aug-
mented by the Word interface. The M-books are:
Illuminating a Room
Mortgage Payments
Monte Carlo Simulation
Population Dynamics
Linear Economic Models
Linear Programming
The 360 ◦ Pendulum
Numerical Solution of the Heat Equation
A Model of Traffic Flow
We have not explained all the MATLAB commands that we use; you can
learn about the new commands from the online help. SIMULINK is used in
A Model of Traffic Flow and as an optional accessory in Population Dynamics
and Numerical Solution of the Heat Equation . Running the M-book on Linear
Programming also requires an M-file found (in slightly different forms) in the
SIMULINK and Optimization toolboxes.
The M-books require different levels of mathematical background and ex-
pertise in other subjects. Illuminating a Room, Mortgage Payments , and
Population Dynamics use only high school mathematics. MonteCarloSimula-
tion uses some probability and statistics; LinearEconomicModels and Linear
Programming , some linear algebra; The 360 ◦ Pendulum , some ordinary dif-
ferential equations; Numerical Solution of the Heat Equation , some partial
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