A MAPLE (8) Tutorial

NOTE: If you use copy and paste from Netscape to Maple, you should paste in Maple with the menus |Edit| |Paste Maple Text|, rather than the standard Paste.

These pages were created by Peter Danziger, Ryerson University, Toronto.

Lab 1

• Basic Syntax
• Expressions
• Functions
  • Standard Maple Functions
  • Composition of Functions
  • Piecewise Functions
  • Special Points
  • Unapply

Lab 2

• Plotting Functions
• Working with Functions and Expressions
• Program Control
  • With Packages
  • $ Iteration
  • Boolean Statements
  • Print
  • For and While
  • If...Then...
  • Data Types - Arrays

Lab 3

• Standard Functions I
  • Groupings [...] {...}
  • Colors
  • Polynomials
  • Rational Functions
  • Products
  • Algebraic Functions
  • Sums of Functions
  • Transcendental Functions
  • Absolute Value

Lab 4

• Standard Functions II - Trigonometric Functions
• Plotting Points and Limits
  • Plotting Points
  • Sequences
  • Limits

Lab 5

• Secants, Tangents and Derivatives
• Exponential Functions

Lab 6

• Finding Roots
• The Bisection Method

Lab 7

• Newton's Method
• Fixed Point Iteration

Lab 8

• Maple Procedures
  • Maple Data Types
• Text In Maple

Lab 9

• Approximating Functions
• Taylor Series

Lab 10

• Integration
• Numerical Integration

Lab 11

• Differential Equations - Euler's Method

MTH 207 Lab Page Format

The lab pages give descriptions and discussion in normal black type.

At various point lab pages will make reference to possible Maple inputs. These are on a seperate line and in purple. For example:
f := x -> x^2 + 3*x-4;

You may type these lines verbatum into Maple, or use copy and paste.

NOTE: If you use copy and paste from Netscape to Maple, you should paste with |Edit| |Paste Maple Text|, rather than the standard Paste.

At various point lab pages will make reference to possible Maple outputs. These are in a on a seperate line and in a different color. For example:

Note that these lines may not appear exactly as they would in the Maple output (Maple uses special formating). Instead we will make use of standard Maple syntax for output where necessary.

The lab pages will also ask questions, these are in green:
Find 1+1

As you work through the labs you are encouraged to find your own examples and to try different things.