Physics 410: Maple

• Lecture 1 (Sep 18 & 20)
  • Important: When working with xmaple (the GUI-based version of maple), make sure that you save your worksheets frequently (use, e.g., Ctrl-S) when working on them to minimize the amount of work lost due to any unexpected "crashes" of the interface and/or operating system.
  • Important: Please note the following difference betweens Maple V.4 (the documentation handed out in class) and Maple V.5 / Maple 6 (the versions currently installed on the NT machines / lnx machines respectively):
    1. The percentage sign, %, replaces the double-quotes character, ", as the shorthand for "last result"; similarly, %% replaces "" for "next-to-last result".
    2. The double pipe symbol, ||, replaces the period/dot, ., as the concatenation operator. (Maple 6 only)
  • Maple 6 window at initial startup. A Taylor series example. Sample invocation of maple from the command-line.
  • Worksheet (PS) (PDF) showing calculations in Chapter 2 of Maple V Learning Guide by Heal et al.
• Lecture 2 (Sep 20)
  • Some Useful Maple Commands: (PS) (PDF)
  • The Maple source files covered below are also available in ~phys410/maple on the lnx machines.
  • Sample Maple source file example. Use the Maple read command to input such a source file.
  • Sample Maple procedure ladd which adds elements of numeric list.
  • Maple source file tladd which tests ladd, and execution trace.
• Lecture 3 (Sep 25)
  • Maple procedure polyinterp for computing Lagrange interpolating polynomial (PS) (PDF).
  • polyinterp usage examples (PS) (PDF).
• Additional Material
  • Annotated maple source file pgmguide1 to accompany Chapter 1 of Maple V Programming Guide