Maple7 is available for students, and installation instructions
have been posted on the
department's software web page.
You can learn a lot about Maple by reading its help... Learning Maple is not a
requirement for the class, and you can obtain maximum scores and achieve
complete understanding of the material without ever using this software.
Such type of knowledge may ease a bit your life in Math 23, or may come handy
with other occasions during your study years. I encourage you to get
familiar with Maple.
Here is the link to a
comprehensive introduction to Maple.
Finally, below are some graphs that I have obtained,
using Maple (or Mathematica), when
I prepared the lectures for our class. Feel free to cut-and-paste any Maple
command contained in the files, and use them to start learning how to work
with Maple.
March 26, 2003 | Introduction to differential equations; Direction fields |
April 16, 2003 | Chapter 4: the wronskian |
April 17, 2003 | Chapter 7: eigenvalues and eigenvectors (pdf) |
May 9, 2003 | Chapter 5: Series solutions of ODEs (thanks to Scott Pauls) |
May 14, 2003 | Chapter 10: graphing Fourier series |
May 21, 2003 | Chapter 10: heat equation |
May 22, 2003 | Chapter 10: wave equation |
May 28, 2003 | Chapter 10: Laplace equation (Dirichlet problem) |