Contents

• 1. Getting started with MATLAB
  • 1.1 Why MATLAB and this tutorial?
  • 1.2 Matlab interface
  • 1.3 Matlab as a calculator
  • 1.4 Variables
    • 1.4.1 Arrays: vectors and matrices
  • 1.5 Avoiding carpal-tunnel syndrome: Using M-files
  • 1.6 Controlling output
  • 1.7 Using MATLAB's help
  
  
• 2. Plotting
  • 2.1 Two-dimensional plots
    • 2.1.1 Simple 2D plots
    • 2.1.2 Log plots
    • 2.1.3 Other 2-D plots
  • 2.2 Three-dimensional plots
  
  
• 3. More on matrices and vectors
  • 3.1 Creating matrices and vectors and indexing elements
  • 3.2 Manipulating matrices and vectors
    • 3.2.1 Transposing
    • 3.2.2 Element-by-element array operations
    • 3.2.3 Array-array operations
    • 3.2.4 Special arrays
    • 3.2.5 Indexing multidimensional arrays
  
  
• 4. Linear algebra
  • 4.1 Basic operations
  • 4.2 Dot, Cross, Norm, Inverse, Linear solutions
  
  
• 5. Data analysis
  • 5.1 Averages, medians, standard deviation, and all that
  • 5.2 Linear regression
  • 5.3 Fitting with MATLAB
  
  
• 6. Real programming
  • 6.1 Loops
  • 6.2 Branching
  • 6.3 Modular programming
    • 6.3.1 Functions
    • 6.3.2 Inline functions
    • 6.3.3 M-file functions
  
  
• 7. Workhorses of Computational Physics
  • 7.1 Why computational physics?
  • 7.2 Root-finding (optimization)
    • 7.2.1 Bisection
    • 7.2.2 Newton's Method and the Secant Method
  • 7.3 Numerical integration
  • 7.4 Numerical derivatives
    • 7.4.1 Basics of ODE's
  • 7.5 Stochastic methods
  
  
• 8. Efficiency matters
• 9. Advanced graphics
  • 9.1 Fancy plots
  • 9.2 Fine tuning plots
  • 9.3 Animations
  
  
• 10. More ODE's
• 11. Introduction to Unix and Emacs
  • 11.1 Unix
  • 11.2 Text Editors: emacs, vi, pico, etc.
  
  
• 12. Introduction to FORTRAN90/95
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