An Introduction to MATLAB

Presented byT.S.L.V.Ayyarao

Outine

• What is MATLAB?• Strengths of MATLAB• Weakness of MATLAB• How is it useful to students

What is MATLAB?

MATLAB stands for MATrix LABoratory• Developed primarily by Cleve Moler in the

1970’s.• Matlab is a high performance language for

technical computation.• It integrates computation, visualization and

programming environment.

Strengths of MATLAB

• MATLAB is relatively easy to learn.• MATLAB code is optimized to be

relatively quick when performing matrix operations.

• MATLAB may behave like a calculator or as a programming language.

• MATLAB has powerful built in routines

Weakness of MATLAB

• MATLAB is not a general purpose programming language

• MATLAB is an interpreted language, slower than complied language like C++

• MATLAB command are specific for MATLAB usage

How is it useful to students

• System dynamics can be analyzed very easily

• Messy equations can be solved very easily

• Can do projects• Can do research