p >Hello. I'm still kind of new to the practice of using a computer program to manipulate equations. I knew that one way to define an ellipse is as the locus of points P such that for 2 fixed points F1 and F2 the sum PF1 + PF2 is constant. I also know that in Cartesian coordinates, we get a formula of the form Ax2 + By2 = 1. If we set up our coordinate system such that F1 and F2 are on the x axis each a distance c from the origin and the maximum width of the ellipse is 2a, let's try to figure out A and B using MAPLE.

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Hi Our university (Univ. Sao Paulo - Brazil) has license for maple 9 (not sure which release).. It can be also that the version they have is Maple 6 since there is a xmaple6 in the files (see bellow) I use in my machine Ubuntu linux, the newest version. Althoug it says it has linux support for maple, nobody was able to install it from the instructions provided from above to us, users. I will describe the situation: we get from the university a tar file containing the files root@edf:/etc/Maple/bin.IBM_INTEL_LINUX_REDHAT# ls -1 hostpatch ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 libdl.so.2 libICE.so.6

Hi I got an equation that I would like to find out its turning points.As you know you first have to differentiate it and then..... Here is my command on maple: y:=x->6x^2-7x-3*exp(-1/5*x); df:=diff(y(x),x); solve(%,x); and then I get 5 LambertW(-1/100 (e)^(((-7)/60)))+7/12 5 LambertW(-1,-1/100 (e)^(((-7)/60)))+7/12 as answers, I don't know if they are correct, but I do know that there must be a simpler answer than this! I was therefore wondering if you guys know how I can approach this problem differently! Thanks Chris

I wish to know if there is way to plot the following functions: x1=X1+X2*gamma(t) x2=X2 and x1=alpha*cons(theta)*X1-beta*sin(theta)*X2+gamma x2=alpha*sin(theta)*X1-beta*cos(theta)*X2+gamma where in the second one alpha, beta. and gamma are constants. many thanks, A.

Hi, At my university i saw a presentation of maple. It was running under linux (kde), and obviously it had a (Trolltech) Qt GUI. I really would like to work under a Qt-GUI, too, but I have no idea how to do that. The only GUI I get to work is the normal Swing-GUI of the Java Version. Thanks a lot, David

I'm having problems plotting the derivative of a function after I've solved the ODE in an ODE system. Any help appreciated! The MAPLE help for plots,odeplot says: "Multiple curves can be plotted by specifying a nested list format. For example, [[x,y(x)],[x,diff(y(x),x)]] displays the dependent variable and its derivative as a function of x on the same plot." So, here's my problem. I define mtest with my two ODE's and two initial values, and solve it numerically over my specified range. This works great. mtest := [diff(m(t), t) = -43/25*exp(-8527.784461/(pt(t)+273.15)+19.03523317)*(m(t)-exp(-23300/(8.314*pt(t)+2270.96910)+2.646139043)), diff(pt(t), t) = 240, m(0) = 1, pt(0) = 105];

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The following equation cannot be plotted correctly in the usual 3 dimensional plot with Cartesian coordinates. eq := (x^2+y^2+z^2-1)^3 - x^2*z*3 - y^2*z^3 = 0; Either a 3 dimensional implicit plot, or a spherical coordinates plot is needed. What surprised me was how long Maple 10.06 took to produce the latter with very roughly the same amount of detail as the former: 454 s versus 0.7 s. It seems as though one should always prefer the implicit plot to the spherical plot if the 3 dimensional Cartesian plot fails. I would be grateful for any thoughts about this and any improvements to the code below. (Apologies for not posting the worksheet – I think that File Manager might object to its 10MB size!)

Hello, I would like to do some computations with Legendre polynomials. I would like to know, if Maple is able to do some simplifications and use orthogonality of Legendre polynomials. For example > Int(LegendreP(m,x)*LegendreP(n, x), x=-1..1); This integral should be zero or 2/(2*n+1), depending on the relation between m and n. Is there any chance to get it (maybe using the procedure assume() )? another example: > diff(LegendreP(n,x), x$n); This should be (2*n)! Thank you very much for your help. Karel Srot

I have defined a function in a parameter form x:= .... y:= .... and I have defined a circle in a parameter form X:= .... Y:= .... Now I want to calculate the intersectionpoints. I could use: solve(x=X,t) and solve (y=Y,t) but the teacher teached me that some points are going lost if you use to separate commando's. Now is the question what's the commando for combining these two solves. My concrete example: restart:x:=2*cos(t)+cos(2*t); x := 2 cos(t) + cos(2 t) > y:=2*sin(t)-sin(2*t); > y := 2 sin(t) - sin(2 t) Circle:

Hi, I have a system of 3 coupled equations (3 unknowns) with complex numbers. I solved them with solvefor. I'm interested in the modulus (|a+ib|^2 = a^2 + b^2 ) and phase of each solution. Because of that I used polar and abs (I have more interest in the modulus). In each case I ran simplify, despite of that the solutions are huge. I would like to work with them in some spreadsheet (in order to set the parameters, evaluate the solutions, compare them with some experimental data and do some plotting). Given that the solutions are huge I can just write them by hand where I want. In order to automatize that I've tried to use the VisualBasic command to cut&paste the formulas in VBA. The problem is that they are so long that the source code just gets broken.

Hi I'm currently doing a maple assignment for my uni course, and was wondering how do you simplify this equation to get a simple quadratic! 6x^2-7x-3*exp(-1/5*x) as you can see its really a simple quadratic with an exponential stuck on to it! My question is can you simplify it with maple, 2.) Does the whole equation only have 1 root since its an exponential function stuck on! Thanks Chris

So I went ahead with alec's timer code and expanded on that, his window approach was also the approach I would need to furthar push the project to completion, so the beginning is pretty much his code, and works plenty fine. Now I was working on the project and then realized in order to set things up the way I want, i'm going to have to make a grid layout, also suggested by a fine coder here in a previous help topic, now my problem is, I had to rehaul ALL of my code to use grid layout, grid layout seems like a really easy to use system, and I started converting all the code to comply with that, and in the huge mess of brackets and square brackets, I seem to have messed up the overall opening and closing of said brackets.

How do I plot a prism or a general polyhedron with maple ? I tried polygonplot3d but the result is not satisfactory because maple does not recognize the edges between the faces correctly. Thank you very much for your answer.

Hi, Let's say there is a equation as following: a+b+c How can I save each term by "+" into an array? I.e) a+b+c Then I'd like to save each paramter split by "+" into an array. a is saved to array[0] b is saved to array[1] c is saved to array[2] I'm not sure I could make it in Maple. Any idea using Maple? Thanks!