MIT Matlab教程：INTRODUCTION TO MATLAB — Fall 1999

Thomas F. Weiss

Last modification September 9, 1999

1-MATLAB is a programming language and data visualization software package which is especially

effective in signal processing and systems analysis. This document is a brief introduction

to MATLAB that focuses on those features that are of particular importance in

6.003.1 It is assumed that the reader is familiar with Project Athena, has an Athena account,

and has little or no experience with MATLAB. Other MATLAB help is available through

Athena consulting which offers a number of more tutorial handouts and short courses (ext.

3-4435), on-line consulting (type olc at the Athena prompt), and Athena on-line help (type

help at the Athena prompt). There are a number of books available that describe MATLAB.

For example, Engineering Problem Solving with Matlab, by D. M. Etter, published by

Prentice-Hall (1997) and Mastering MATLAB, by Hanselman and Littlefield, published by

Prentice-Hall (1996). The paperback MATLAB Primer by K. Sigmon, published by CRC

Press (1994) is a handy summar