MATLAB® for Engineering Applications – William J. Palm III – 4th Edition

Number and Topic

CHAPTER ONE
1.1-1 Volume of a circular cylinder
1.6-1 Piston motion

CHAPTER TWO
2.3-1 Vectors and displacement
2.3-2 Aortic pressure model
2.3-3 Transportation route analysis
2.3-4 Current and power dissipation in resistors
2.3-5 A batch distillation process
2.4-1 Miles traveled
2.4-2 Height versus velocity
2.4-3 Manufacturing cost analysis
2.4-4 Product cost analysis
2.5-1 Earthquake-resistant building design
2.6-1 An environment database
2.7-1 A student database

CHAPTER THREE
3.2-1 Optimization of an irrigation channel
3.4-1 Creating a data file and loading it into a variable

CHAPTER FOUR
4.3-1 Height and speed of a projectile
4.5-1 Series calculation with a for loop
4.5-2 Plotting with a for loop
4.5-3 Data sorting
4.5-4 Flight of an instrumented rocket
4.6-1 Series calculation with a while loop
4.6-2 Growth of a bank account
4.6-3 Time to reach a specified height
4.7-1 Using the switch structure for calendar calculations
4.9-1 A college enrollment model: Part I
4.9-2 A college enrollment model: Part II

CHAPTER FIVE
5.2-1 Plotting orbits

CHAPTER SIX
6.1-1 Speed estimation from sonar measurements
6.1-2 Temperature dynamics
6.1-3 Hydraulic resistance
6.1-4 A cantilever beam model
6.2-1 Effect of polynomial degree
6.2-2 Estimation of traffic flow
6.2-3 Modeling bacteria growth
6.2-4 Breaking strength and alloy composition
6.2-5 Response of a biomedical instrument

CHAPTER SEVEN
7.1-1 Breaking strength of thread
7.2-1 Mean and standard deviation of heights
7.2-2 Estimation of height distribution
7.3-1 Statistical analysis and manufacturing tolerances
7.3-2 A random walk with drift

CHAPTER EIGHT
8.1-1 The matrix inverse method
8.2-1 Left division method with three unknowns
8.2-2 Calculation of cable tension
8.2-3 An electric resistance network
8.2-4 Ethanol production
8.3-1 An underdetermined set with three equations and three unknowns
8.3-2 A statically indeterminate problem
8.3-3 Three equations in three unknowns, continued
8.3-4 Production planning
8.3-5 Traffic engineering
8.4-1 The least-squares method
8.4-2 An overdetermined set

CHAPTER NINE
9.1-1 Velocity from an accelerometer
9.1-2 Evaluation of Fresnel's cosine integral
9.1-3 Double integral over a nonrectangular region
9.3-1 Response of an RC circuit
9.3-2 Liquid height in a spherical tank
9.4-1 A nonlinear pendulum model
9.5-1 Trapezoidal profile for a DC motor

CHAPTER TEN
10.2-1 Simulink solution of ? = 10 sin t
10.2-2 Exporting to the MATLAB workspace
10.2-3 Simulink model for ? = ?10y + f(t)
10.3-1 Simulink model of a two-mass suspension system
10.4-1 Simulink model of a rocket-propelled sled
10.4-2 Model of a relay-controlled motor
10.5-1 Response with a dead zone
10.6-1 Model of a nonlinear pendulum

CHAPTER ELEVEN
11.2-1 Intersection of two circles
11.2-2 Positioning a robot arm
11.3-1 Topping the Green Monster