Maple Information
- Maple V can be downloaded from Public at Public/Licensed Software/
Key Server Controlled/Limited Support/Maple V
- Information about installing Maple can be found at the mathematics
department's Software Resources
page.
- A basic introduction to Maple (in PDF format - you'll need
Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it) can be
downloaded
- Once you've installed Maple, start it up and try it out. Here
are a few differential equations-related commands to try. Hit the
"enter" key after them, not the "return" key; also, those semicolons
at the end are necessary.
- > plot([exp(t)+exp(-t),2*exp(t)-exp(-t),t=-1..1]);
this will create a parametric plot with x=e^t+e^(-t),y=2e^t-e^(-t),
-1<=t<=1
- > with(DEtools);
this loads some extra tools for solving d.e. problems
- > dfieldplot((2*x+y)/(x-y),[x,y],x=0..5,y=0..5);
this creates a direction
field for dy/dx=(2*x+y)/(x-y), with x and y running between 0 and 5
- > ?dfieldplot
this brings up a help page for the command "dfieldplot"