Physical Modeling in MATLAB

by Allen B. Downey

Physical Modeling in MATLAB is an introduction to programming and to modeling and simulation of physical systems, for people who have never programmed before. It assumes some calculus and basic physics.

Two ways to use this book

Read it here. Each chapter is a page you can read in your browser, with the code, its output, and the figures. Solutions to the exercises are hidden; click to show them.

Run the code online. Each chapter is also a notebook you can run, change and run again in your browser, with GNU Octave, the free alternative to MATLAB. There’s nothing to install and no account to create. Run the code online, or use the “Run this chapter online” link at the top of each chapter.

You can also run the examples on your own computer, in MATLAB or GNU Octave: download the code.

More

• The book’s page at Green Tea Press, with the free PDF

• The code and the LaTeX source on GitHub

• Support free, open educational materials from Green Tea Press

The examples are written for MATLAB and also run in GNU Octave. Text: CC BY-NC 4.0; code: MIT License.