Instructions and hints:
- This is due on Friday, March 15 (you can turn it in at my office, or you can turn it in earlier).
- You can use the computers in the library after we are done in the lab.
- You should print out your assignment from Maple and turn that printout in.
Try to make you work easy to read so that I can find your answers and work without too much work.
- Any explainations you need to put in, you should type in from Maple.
You can do this by beginning a line with #.
- First, you need to open Maple. Go to the [Start], then [Class Apps], then [Math Apps] and you should see maple there.
- If you don't see Maple there, then that means you might not have network access to it (probably because you
registered late). You will need to talk to IT (2023) and get this fixed.
- Next, start playing around with maple. You can read the new user tutorial if you want, but I personally
think this will not get you going quick enough. My general way of learning is to go to help and
then look at examples. For example, try typing ?int.
This should open up the help window in the integration section. If you just type ?,
it should open the help window and you can look at all the topics.
- When looking in the help section, I have found it easiest to copy examples from the help section.
For example, in the integration help, one of the examples is:
int( sin(x), x);
Try typing this and see what happens. Another one to try is:
int( sin(x), x = 0..Pi);
- Some of the most common mistakes include:
- Make sure every line ends with a semi-color or colon (experiment and see what the difference is).
- Make sure you put parenthesis everywhere. Maple will not understand what you want unless you tell it exactly what you mean.
Here's a couple examples for you to try and see what happens:
1 / x + 2
1 / (x + 2)
(1 / x) + 2
- For some reason I don't completely understand, different things happen when you use commands that are
either capitalized or not. For example,
pi and Pi seem to mean different things.
Similarly for the integration commands int and Int.
I'm not entirely sure what the difference is, but if you're getting answers you don't expect, try changing these.
- Sometimes you need to load a package. For example, to use maple's simpson rule (which I don't like), you would
need to type (at the top of your work): with(student).
You should see this in the help for simpson (type ?simpson to see).
- There is a difference between = and :=.
- Maple will often try to leave answers with radicals and not use decimals.
There are several ways to remedy this, but evalf is quite useful here.
- I have some Maple tutorials linked if you want to look at them.
If you want to go through something like this, then some of these are probably better then the Maple help tutorial.
Here is the link:
math software.
What you need to do on Maple:
- Section 7.6: 35, 36, 41
- Section 7.6: 43, 44
- Section 7.4: 67, 68 (don't worry about doing these by hand)
- Section 7.5: 61, 58
- Compare: the midpoint rule with Simpsons rule. I have written code for these here:
numerics.txt, or you can use Maple's simpson's rule (try ?simpson).
Get an estimate for theIntegral of the function f(x)=e^(-x^2) 0 to 100 with 10, 20, 100 and 1000 subdivisions.
Explain what is happening.
- (Optional) Section 7.7: 25