Using Maple outside of class

To run Maple you have a few options:

1. Buy the student edition of version 9.5 for your own PC. I can give you a discount code so that the cost is $75. This will meet all of your needs.
2. Use a PC or Mac in a public campus lab. Virtually all have Maple installed. Visit this page to find locations. Make sure you save your work on floppy disk, or transfer your files using ftp to your central account.
3. If you are comfortable with UNIX, you can use your "composer" account on brahms. There are two ways to do this:
   • Log in from a public X-terminal.
   • Get Exceed software ($25) from campus IT for your own Windows PC. This lets you set up an X connection to brahms. For more on Exceed, check here.
   Whenever you use brahms, log on and then enter newgrp nnnn at the UNIX prompt in a shell window, where nnnn is a four-digit number provided by your instructor. (This step makes sure that your activities for the course are not charged against your general email account.) Then enter xmaple & at the prompt to run Maple. For more UNIX account help, go here.

Maple tutorials

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

Note: The material here is based on Maple 9.01.

• Maple basics (242 background)

• Vector basics and arithmetic
• Lines and planes
• Quadric surfaces
• Cylindrical and spherical coordinate surfaces

• Vector functions and space curves

• Multivariate functions
• Partial derivatives, linearization
• Gradients, directional derivatives
• Extreme values/optimization

• Double integrals
• Triple integrals

• Vector fields
• Line integrals
• Div, curl, and all that

More help

• Here is Maple's official site for students. See especially the "Maple tutorials."