TABLE OF CONTENTS This chapter presents the fundamental properties and capabilities of the computational and simulation tool MATLAB.
The purpose of this chapter is to introduce beginners to MATLAB and familiarize them with the basis structure of this software. To make this introduction more accessible, only a few elementary mathematical concepts from linear algebra (vector and matrix calculations) and the analysis of elementary functions will be assumed.
At this point we will avoid more advanced concepts, especially those provided by the MATLAB function libraries (the so-called toolboxes), since they require more extensive knowledge of mathematics, signal processing, control technology, and many other disciplines, and are therefore inappropriate for the beginning students for whom this introduction is intended.
