Planning to buy matlab student version

Hi guys I'm planning to buy the student version of matlab, and I was wondering about the functionality.

Will it be adequate for the kind of computation I would carry out as a final year mechanical engineering student?

I will be working with image processing, simulink, nonlinear dynamics systems, rigid body dynamics, signal processing and differential calculus at the least.

Any insight into this would be helpful!

Answer 1

[Ameer Hamza]

Yes, a student license will be adequate for these purposes. The basic purchase of a student license comes bundled with the following toolboxes.

Simulink, Control System Toolbox, Curve Fitting Toolbox, DSP System Toolbox, 
Image Processing Toolbox, Instrument Control Toolbox, Optimization Toolbox, 
Parallel Computing Toolbox, Signal Processing Toolbox, 
Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox, Symbolic Math Toolbox

These alone will be sufficient for most of your works. But If you want to get another toolbox, you can get it for a small price.

Since at the time of the purchase of a new student license, you can get additional toolboxes at a lower price; therefore, I suggest you look at Simscape and Simscape Multibody toolboxes. These will be very useful for Rigid-body dynamics analysis in Simulink.

[Walter Roberson]

The one important limitation to be aware of is that the Student license is restricted to 1000 non-virtual blocks for Simulink -- so it cannot deal with complicated Simulink models.