Math 2280 - Maple Project 1
Dylan Zwick
Spring 2009
This project will introduce us to Maple, and how we can use Maple
and Maple programming to help us solve differential equations. The goal
of this project is to introduce you to Maple programming, and to give you
some experience of Maple programming by writing Maple programs that
implement the various numerical methods we learned for solving first-
order ODEs at the end of chapter 2.
1 Maple Programming
We won’t be going in depth (at all) in this project or in this class on how
to program in Maple. That’s a subject for another class, and frankly a sub-
ject that your instructor would be unqualified to teach. We’re just going
to learn the minimum you’ll need to know to start writing and hacking
around with your own programs to do differential equations.
The first thing you’ll want to do is open up Maple on one of the com-
puters in the math department. Then, you’ll want to open up a new doc-
ument in worksheet mode. It’s very important that for programming we’re
in worksheet mode. Next, you’ll want to go to the edit menu, and make
sure you’re in text mode. So, if the edit menu says “switch to math mode
F5”, then you’re good. If the edit menu says “switch to text mode F5”,
then you’re going to want to click on that option to switch to text mode.
When this is done, enter in the following program:
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