Maple/C Online Resources

This page contains links to online educational resources designed for use with the Maple/C version of Introduction to Scientific Programming by Joseph L. Zachary.

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Diskette

The diskette that is included with the textbook includes a Maple worksheet for each chapter that contains Maple code, the custom Maple library that is exploited in the book, and the complete implementation of every C program that appears in the book. The Maple material is formatted for both Maple V Release 3 and Release 4.

You can

• Retrieve a tar file containing the diskette's contents.
• Retrieve a zip file containing the diskette's contents.
• Browse the contents of the diskette and retrieve individual components.

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Upgraded Maple Libraries

We have upgraded the Maple libraries contained on the diskette to support some of the Maple worksheets described in the next section. If you use those worksheets, you will need to obtain new versions of the libraries. You can

• Retrieve a tar file containing the upgraded Maple V Release 6 library.
• Retrieve a zip file containing the upgraded Maple V Release 6 library.

• Retrieve a tar file containing the upgraded Maple V Release 5 library.
• Retrieve a zip file containing the upgraded Maple V Release 5 library.

• Retrieve a tar file containing the upgraded Maple V Release 4 library.
• Retrieve a zip file containing the upgraded Maple V Release 4 library.

• Retrieve a tar file containing the upgraded Maple V Release 3 library.
• Retrieve a zip file containing the upgraded Maple V Release 3 library.

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Tutorial Material

A suite of laboratory materials is being developed to accompany the text, including HTML-based tutorials enhanced with Java applets and Maple worksheets. The tutorials can be used with any Java-capable Web browser; the worksheets are available for use with both Maple V Release 3 and Release 4. Check this page frequently. During the latter part of 1996 and the early part of 1997, new laboratory materials will appear regularly. The entries that appear below without links indicate places where work on laboratory materials is in progress.

1. Computational Science

   • Applet that animates the orbits of Earth and Mars.

2. Population Density: Computational Properties of Numbers

   • Worksheet that gives a brief introduction to the use of Maple worksheets.

   • Worksheet that illustrates Maple expressions.

   • Applet that demonstrates the behavior of floating-point numbers.

     Zip file containing applet source

   • Applet that demonstrates the behavior of rational numbers.

     Zip file containing applet source

3. Eratosthenes: Significant Digits and Interval Arithmetic

   • Worksheet that illustrates significant digits and interval arithmetic. To use this worksheet, you must retrieve an upgraded Maple library.

   • Worksheet that illustrates operator precedence.

   • Worksheet that illustrates assignment.

4. Stairway to Heaven: Accumulation of Roundoff Error

   • Applet that demonstrates the block-stacking process.

     Zip file containing applet source

   • Worksheet that does block stacking calculations.

5. Kitty Hawk: Programmer-Defined Functions

   • Worksheet that illustrates programmer-defined functions. To use this worksheet, you must retrieve an upgraded Maple library.

6. Baby Boom: Symbolic Computation

   • Applet that demonstrates interest accumulation.

     Zip file containing applet source

   • Worksheet that explores loss of significance when computing the quadratic formula. It makes use of programmer-defined functions and symbolic computation.

   • Worksheet that explores Maple's capabilities for symbolic computation.

7. Ballistic Trajectories: Scientific Visualization

   • Applet that demonstrates ballistic trajectories

     Zip file containing applet source

   • Worksheet that illustrates Maple plotting

8. The Battle for Leyte Gulf: Symbolic Mathematics

   • Applet that demonstrates destroyer trajectories

9. Old MacDonald's Cow: Procedural Programming

   • Applet that demonstrates the bisection method

     Zip file containing applet source

10. Introduction to C

11. Robotic Weightlifting: Straight-Line Programs

    • Applet that demonstrates the weightlifting problem

      Zip file containing applet source

    • Tutorial that illustrates the use of printf and scanf in C

12. Sliding Blocks: Conditionals and Functions

    • Applet that illustrates friction

      Zip file containing applet source

    • Tutorial that illustrates the use of conditionals in C

13. Rod Stacking: Designing with Functions

    • Applet that demonstrates the rod stacking problem

      Zip file containing applet source

14. Newton's Beam: Repetition

    • Applet that demonstrates Newton's method

      Zip file containing applet source

15. Numerical Integration: Multiple-File Programs

    • Applet that demonstrates numerical integration

      Zip file containing applet source

16. Harmonic Oscillation: Structures and Abstract Datatypes

    • Applet that demonstrates harmonic motion

17. Heat Transfer in a Rod: Arrays

    • Applet that demonstrates heat transfer

      Zip file containing applet source

    • Tutorial that illustrates the use of arrays in C

18. Visualizing Heat Transfer: Arrays as Parameters

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Last revised 07Nov1997.