File Exchange Pick of the Week

January 30th, 2009

MATLAB in Physics

Jiro's pick this week is MATLAB in Physics Lecture by Matt McDonnell.

As an application engineer, I travel to many universities to give seminars on MathWorks products. This week, I had a chance to visit Virginia Commonwealth University and talk in front of 50 to 70 engineering freshman students taking the "Engineering Visualization and Computation" course. The course introduces students to several engineering tools including MATLAB. For the session, I showed a few application examples that involve MATLAB, like probablility/statistics, image processing, and audio processing. MATLAB is a powerful tool for doing advanced analysis and research, but it can also be a useful tool to teach various concepts.

This set of lecture files by Matt is designed to teach fundamental physics concepts using MATLAB to undergraduate students. It's nicely designed, starting off with MATLAB basics, and then using some of the analysis and visualization capabilities to explore sounds, images, and physical systems. There's a MATLAB script which you can publish, and he includes a PDF version of the lecture as well.

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By Jiro Doke

Jiro is an application engineer at MathWorks. His job allows him to evangelize about MATLAB by traveling around the country to various universities and companies. He is a MATLAB addict, but he doesn't seem to mind being labeled as one.

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3 Responses to “MATLAB in Physics”

  1. farasha replied on January 30th, 2009 at 17:46 UTC :

    using Matlab for educational purposes is not new for us,,, very great efforts though

  2. jiro replied on January 30th, 2009 at 19:23 UTC :

    Farasha,

    Do you care to share how you use it? Can any of it be posted on the File Exchange?

  3. hamed replied on November 18th, 2009 at 20:39 UTC :

    k

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