Optimization, 4 different ways to use/call Matlab’s ‘fminsearch’ function to perform unconstrained optimization, how to convert a constrained optimization problem into an approximately equivalent unconstrained optimization problem using the penalty method, how to solve a system of equations using numerical optimization instead of analytically solving, how to find a trim point of a dynamic system using numerical optimization techniques, and discussion of the Taylor Series (and the closely related Maclaurin Series) . 5 episodes.