MAPLE TUTORIAL FOR MATH 243

Rakesh

Version - August 28, 1995

• COMMANDS FOR MATH 242 MATERIAL
  • Starting Maple
  • Differentiation, Integration, Editing
  • Quitting Maple and Logging Out
  • Interrupting, Restarting Maple
  • Manipulating Windows
  • Getting Help in Maple
  • Time Saving Tricks
  • Substituting a Value in an Expression, Approximating an Expression
  • Some Common Errors
  • Plotting Planar Curves
  • Solving Equations Exactly
  • Solving Equations Approximately
  • Long Command Lines - the Line Feed Key
  • Manipulating Expressions, Extracting Parts of Expressions
  • Roles of Different Kinds of Parentheses
  • Summary of Commands in Section 1
• WORKING WITH MAPLE FILES
  • Preparing a Report With Graphs, Comments, and Commands
  • Saving Maple Work For Future Use
  • Loading Files Into Maple
  • Printing Contents of Maple Window
  • Printing a Maple Graph
  • Naming Your Files
• OPERATIONS ON VECTORS AND VECTOR FIELDS
  • Vector Operations
  • Operations On Vector Fields
• PLOTTING OBJECTS IN THREE DIMENSIONS
  • Defining Functions/Procedures
  • Plotting Three Dimensional Curves
  • Plotting Surfaces In Implicit Or `z' Form
  • Plotting Surfaces In Parametric Form
  • Superimposing Pictures
  • Drawing Cut Off Surfaces
• ODDS AND ENDS
  • Multiple Integration
  • Jacobian
  • Taylor Polynomials
  • Finite Summation
  • Finite Sequences
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