Download or read book Applied Numerical Methods with MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists written by Steven C. Chapra and published by McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math. This book was released on 2008 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still brief - but with the chapters that you wanted - Steven Chapra’s new second edition is written for engineering and science students who need to learn numerical problem solving. This text focuses on problem-solving applications rather than theory, using MATLAB throughout. Theory is introduced to inform key concepts which are framed in applications and demonstrated using MATLAB. The new second edition feature new chapters on Numerical Differentiation, Optimization, and Boundary-Value Problems (ODEs).