Maple Lab Manual

William W. Farr
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA 01609
E-mail:bfarr@math.wpi.edu

• Contents
• Getting Started With Maple.
  • Introduction
    • Maple at WPI
  • Running Maple.
  • Saving your work.
  • Quitting Maple.
  • Maple Commands
  • Defining and Manipulating Expressions.
  • Defining Functions
  • Defining Compound Functions
  • Plotting Functions.
  • Three dimensional plotting in Maple.
  • Saving and printing plots
  • Loading Worksheets
  • Printing worksheets in SH 306
• Using Maple Efficiently
  • Introduction
  • Labels
    • What is a label?
    • Choosing names for labels
    • When to use labels
    • Summary
  • Functions versus Expressions
  • Building Complicated Maple Commands
  • Common problems
• Maple Worksheets Reference
  • Important menus in the Maple window
  • Text blocks in Maple worksheets
  • Page breaks in Maple worksheets
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Help in Maple.
  • Using the Help Browser
• About this document ...