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Welcome to Prof. Sutherland's Wiki!

This Wiki is intended to be a resource for students on Matlab, numerical analysis, and technical writing. It contains many explanations, procedures, tips, tricks and examples. All Chemical Engineering students should be able to log in using their departmental user name and password.

Matlab Tutorials

Click here to visit Matlab's website for their online tutorials.

• Matlab Basics - the basics of Matlab, including:
  • Use of the command window
  • Defining your own variables
  • Basic commands and commonly used functions
  • Creating m-files
  • Matlab's path
  • Ten Things To Know Before You Write Any Programs

• Arrays in Matlab
  • Basic properties of arrays in Matlab
  • Creating arrays in Matlab
  • Doing arithmetic with arrays in Matlab
  • Accessing arrays in Matlab

• Solving Linear Systems of Equations

• Logic in Matlab

• Loops in Matlab

• Functions in Matlab
  • Recursive Functions

• Plotting in Matlab
  • (x,y) Plots in Matlab
  • Contour & Surface Plots
  • Histograms & Bar Graphs

• Input/Output in Matlab
  • Terminal and File Input in Matlab
  • Terminal and File Output Matlab
  • Exporting Matlab Figures

• Debugging in Matlab

Tutorials on Numerical Analysis

Each tutorial includes a discussion of algorithm(s) and some examples, including Matlab code.

• Linear Algebra Refresher
  • Basic Linear Algebra
  • Matrix & Vector Algebra
  • Linear Systems of Equations
  • Solving Linear Systems of Equations

• Interpolation
• Regression
• Numerical Differentiation
• Numerical Integration
• Nonlinear equations
• Ordinary Differential Equations

And a potpourri of miscellaneous topics:

• Taylor Series - used in various parts of numerical analysis.

Technical Writing

• A Short Guide to Technical Writing by W. M. Learned and the ChEn faculty. This guide is required reading for Senior Laboratory.

• Equations in Word including automatic numbering and cross-referencing.

• Figures in Word - creating captions, numbering, and cross referencing.

• Bibliographies in Word including cross-referencing.

• LyX - a powerful cross-platform package for technical writing.