Math 251 -- Spring 2001

Information about the history of the course is available here.

Instructions for use of Maple in Math 251: *** html version, ***Adobe Acrobat version

Maple Labs

Use of the Maple Symbolic Manipulation System is part of this course.  One class early in the semester will be held in a computer laboratory rather than the regular classroom. Generally, the first recitation class that follows a lecture is used, with the class rescheduled to a lab on the same campus.  Here is the schedule:
 
Sect. Day Period Date Location
1 T 1 1/23/01 ARC-118
2 T 2 1/23/01 ARC-118
3 T 3 1/23/01 ARC-118
4 W 1 1/17/01 ARC-118
5 W 5 1/17/01 ARC-118
6 W 3 1/17/01 ARC-118
7 W 3 1/17/01 ARC-119
8 W 4 1/17/01 ARC-119
9 W 5 1/17/01 ARC-119
10 Th 4 1/18/01 Loree-023
11 Th 5 1/18/01 Loree-023
12 Th 6 1/18/01 Loree-023
13 M 6 1/29/01 PC Lab
14 M ? 1/29/01 PC Lab
15 M ? 1/29/01 PC Lab

For more information about these computer laboratories, visit this page for Busch Campus (ARC), or the link in the table for the other campuses.

Here are copies of the labs used in recent semesters. The assignment in your section may be different, so it is advisable to follow the schedule set by your instructor.

Problem 4 of lab 0 asks for a graph of xx and suggests using a small positive value as the left end of the domain instead of the intended value of zero. This problem was designed for earlier versions of Maple that automatically substituted the correct limit at zero, but release 5 insists that the function is undefined at zero and returns an error. The instruction
plot(piecewise(x>0,x^x,0),x=0..1,discont=true)
will do this automatically. If you omit the discont=true option, there will be an additional line from (0,0) to (0,1). Other experiments with this are encouraged. Use Maple Help for more information about the features used in this example.

Maple Lab seed files.

Your browser should ask where you want to save the file when you click on one of the items below; if your browser shows you the file as text, use the SaveAs item on the file menu to save a local copy. A shortcut is to select the file using shift-click. This gives you your very own copy of the file which you can open in Maple. You can rename the file if you wish, but you should keep the mws extension.

 The Save command in Maple will replace the file opened by Maple with the current contents of your worksheet. If you want to save several generations of your work, use the SaveAs command to save the current worksheet under a new name.

  • Lab 0.


    • Comments on this page should be sent to: sferry@math.rutgers.edu Last updated Friday, January 26, 2001.