Physics 329: Maple

• Lectures 1 & 2 (Sep 4, 9)
  • Important: The current version of Maple (Maple V.5) running on the SGIs is not very robust. I have had the X-interface crash on me several times in the relatively brief period of time I have been using it. Make sure that you save your worksheets frequently (^S) when working on them to minimize the amount of work lost.
  • Important: Note the following differences between Maple V.4 (the documentation I will hand out in class) and Maple V.5 (the version currently installed on the Center SGI machines):
    • The percentage sign, %, replaces the double-quotes character, ", as the shorthand for "last result"; similarly, %% replaces "" for "next-to-last result"
    • The name Pi is no longer protected.
  • Maple V window at initial startup. A Taylor series example. Sample invocation of xmaple from the command-line (PS).
  • Worksheet [(PS) or (PDF)] showing calculations in Chapter 2 of Maple V Learning Guide by Heal et al.
• Lectures 2 & 3 (Sep 9, 11)
  • (1) Some Useful Maple Commands and (2) Common Mistakes and Helpful Hints (PS).
  • Simple Maple source file example: (text) (PS).
  • Sample Maple procedure: ladd which adds elements of numeric list (text) (PS).
  • Maple source file tladd which tests ladd, and execution trace (text) (PS).
  • Sample Maple procedure: series_op which computes expansion coefficients for various power-series operations (text) (PS).
  • Building series_op interactively (PS).
  • Worksheet (PS) illustrating taylor/series bug mentioned above.
• Lecture 4 (Sep 14)
  • Maple procedure polyinterp for computing Lagrange interpolating polynomial (PS).
  • polyinterp usage examples (PS).
• Additional Material
  • Annotated maple source file to accompany Chapter 1 of Maple V Programming Guide