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Instructor

Prasun Ray

Course description

This course provides a quick, (hopefully) painless introduction to matlab for CDT ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. It does not assume any prior matlab experience and should also be helpful to ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ who have used matlab in the past but would like a quick refresher. The course is divided into two parts. The first part introduces ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ to the basics: using matlab for elementary linear algebra, programming, and data visualisation. The second part of the course is structured around a programming project. Students, working in small groups, will develop codes to: 1.) solve a system of ODEs and 2.) analyse and visualise the results.

Syllabus

Part 1: Linear algebra: building and manipulating matrices, solving systems of equations. Programming: scripts, m-files, and functions; for-loops, conditional statements.

Part 2: Solving a simple initial value problem, numerical differentiation and integration, visualisation, data analysis.

Part 3: Programming project: problem description and good programming practice. More on visualisation: animations and 3-d plots. Group projects.

Registration and getting started

If you are interested in attending the course (and your CDT hasn't already signed you up for it), please fill out the short form .

Students have the option of working on their own laptops during the course. Imperial ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ can download Matlab . A free alternative to Matlab is Octave which can be downloaded .