Introduction to Matlab.pdf is a Matlab tutorial intended to help yo get started in Matlab, it is alsp helpfull tutorial to accompany Matlab 6 book or ebook, Mastering MATLAB 6 by Duane Hanselman and Bruce Littlefield.
Because it is short, you can also use this tutorial as a Matlab Reference Manual also, it has alots of examples, table of contents and index. It is almost true that the basics of Matlab are in sections 1-9 while physics applications are in sections 9-17.
Short table of contents of Introduction to Matlab.pdf:
* Running Matlab
* Variables
* Input, Calculating, and Output
* Arrays and x-y Plotting
* Surface, Contour, and Vector Field Plots
* Vector Products, Dot and Cross
* Linear Algebra
* Polynomials
* Loops and Logic
* Derivatives and Integrals
* Interpolation and Extrapolation
* FFT (Fast Fourier Transform)
* Make Your Own Functions: Inline and M-files
* Fitting Functions to Data
* Systems of Nonlinear Equations
* Ordinary Differential Equations
* Publication Quality Plots
Download free Matlab tutorial: Introduction to Matlab.pdf, prepared by Ross L. Spencer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University (86 pages pdf file, 0.5 MB).
