Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Department of Physics

8.01X

Fall 2001

Introduction to MAPLE

This page will serve as a source for instructions on how to use MAPLE for 8.01X - Fall 2001 There are several links to other sources at MIT that might be more general:

For Starters:

To start MAPLE, either load from the Athena dash with

Numerical/Math -> Analysis and Plotting -> Maple

or, at the athena prompt,

athena% maple; maple&

to start Maple Version 5 Release 7.0 (the default release on Athena).

To do a least-squares plot, the commands, while simple, take a while to type. the easiest thing to do is to either Shift-Left-Click or Right-Click to download the worksheet to use as a template. Brief explanations of the command lines and some of the more basic options are given as part of the worksheet. For additional online help, use the ``Help'' feature, in the upper left corner.
The data used for this fairly simple example are fromCalculus with Analytic Geometry by George F. Simmons, Second edition (currently used for 18.01 at MIT), Problem 30 on Page 696. Remember where you saw it first.

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Last updated September 17, 2001.