Computational Physics Summer School

Laboratory
Introduction to Maple

Introduction

This is the online documentation for the Maple Laboratories.

MAPLE is invoked by double clicking on the maple icon. A good way to introduce yourself to MAPLE is with a Quick Tour (Macintoshes only). Double clicking on the "Quick Tour Read Me" icon gives brief instructions. Alternatively launch either the "Quick Tour" (for mathematicians) or "QTour Eng Sci" (for scientists) by double clicking the icons. On PCs use the comand "?intro".

Things to Try

Maple commands must be terminated with a semicolon ";". They are executed by pressing the "enter" key or the "shift-return" key combination. For example typing "1+1;" followed by "enter" should produce the result "2". Try executing the following example:

Maple Scientific Computing

Gleb Beliakov of the Department of Mathematics of Melbourne University has made available his Maple based Scientific Computing course.

His Maple scripts are in the folder "Beliakov maple scripts" in the Summer school folder. They are only available on the PCs.

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Last Update 5 January 1996