Using Maple outside of class

To run Maple you have some options:

  1. Buy the student edition of version 10 for your own PC. I can give you a discount code so that the cost is $?. This will meet all of your needs.
  2. Use a PC or Mac in a public campus lab. Most have Maple installed; you can find out exactly which ones do. Make sure you save your work on a USB drive, or webmail the files to yourself, before you leave the machine.
  3. If you are comfortable with unix and X-windows, you can use your account on strauss. Ask your instructor for the 4-digit "project code" for your class. Log in to strauss and then enter newgrp nnnn at the UNIX prompt in a terminal window, where nnnn is the project code. You should then be able to run the command "xmaple" from the prompt. To see the display, you must have an X-windows server. This should be automatic on a Mac (I think) or Linux box, but on a Windows machine you need to install the free Cygwin/X packages. In any case be sure to enable xhost access for strauss.udel.edu before running xmaple. (If any of this sounds incomprehensible, this option is probably not for you.)

Maple tutorials

These HTML worksheets will help you learn how to apply Maple to this course.

Note: The material here is based on Maple 10. As explained in the first tutorial, the input method here is not the default "2D Math" but an older version that is easier to duplicate.

  1. Entering and manipulating expressions
  2. Collections and equations
  3. Basic calculus (functions, limits, derivatives, integrals)
  4. Simple x-y plots
  5. Exponential, log, inverse trig, and hyperbolic functions
  6. Illustration of integration techniques
  7. Parametric plots and polar coordinates
  8. Conic sections
  9. Sequences and series
  10. Power series and Taylor series
  11. Differential equations

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