Resources
Texts and Journals:
1) Maple V Flight Manual. (Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 511 Forest Lodge Road, Pacific Grove, CA 93950). This is the book which comes with the student version of Maple. Some instructors used this as their only Maple starter manual.
2) Maple Tech Magazine (Springer Verlag) Mostly oriented toward mathematicians.
3) Calculus the Maple Way, R. Israel (Addison-Wesley). Nice consistent style aimed at beginners
4) Essential Maple: An Introduction for Scientific Programmers, Robert Corless (Springer Verlag, 1995)
5) Introduction to Maple, Andre Heck (Springer Verlag, 1996)
6) Maple V by Example, Abell and Braselton, AP Profession
7) Engineering Mathematics with Maple, John S. Robertson (McGraw Hill, 1996). Appears to very minimally introduce commands - it also appears that you could use the chapters in any order you wish. It is a paper back.
8) Classical Mechanics with Maple, Ronald L. Greene (Springer Verlag, 1995) Very nice introductory chapter giving a general sense of how to use Maple and its particular idiosyncratic aspects. A nice length paperback. The drawback is that it is half way between Introductory mechanics and junior year mechanics. But then that also means there are ideas for both courses.
9)Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Gilbert Strang (Hbj, 1988) good applied book.
10) First Steps in Maple, Werner Burkhardt (Springer Verlag, 1995).
11) Probability and Statistics Explorations with Maple, Zaven and Tanis (Prentice-Hall, 1995). There is a statistics supplement available for Maple by ftp//:www.denison.edu. There is also a Maple Help handbook
12) Maple Via Calculus: A Tutorial Approach, Robert Lopez (Birkhauser, 1994).
13) Differential Equations with Maple, Coombs.
14) Solving Ordinary Differential Equations with Maple V, David Barrow (1997).
15) Symbolic Recipes - Scientific Computation with Maple.
16) Multivariable Calculus with Maple V, Cheung and Harer (Wiley, 1993)
17) Maple Talk, Steve Adams (Prentice Hall, 1996)
18) Quantum Mechanics using Maple: With 75 Exercises and Cross Platform Diskette Containing 39 Guided Maple Sessions, Marko Horbatsch (Springer Verlag, 1995).
19) Nonlinear Physics with Maple for Scientists and Engineers, Enns and McGuire (Birkhauser, 1997)
20) Differential Equations with Maple V, Martha Abell and James Braselton (AP Professional, 1994). (This is an intermediate level text, covering all one would like following a typical approach to the subject. All examples are first done in the standard way and then they are followed with appropriate Maple commands. There are good explanations of the Maple commands, but a fair number of typos in them require an experimental attitude.)
21 Maple V: The Maple Handbook, Darren Redfern (Springer Verlag, 1996) (ISBN 0-387-94538-5 is the ISBN number for ordering when you didn't get it because your site/package license gave the copies to someone else at your institution.) Explains all the commands.
22) Maple V: Learning Guide, Heal, Hansen and Rickard (Springer Verlag, 1966) (ISBN 0-387-94536-9is the ISBN number for ordering when you didn't get it because your site/package license gave the copies to someone else at your institution.) Excellent manual for helping you through all sorts of problems the you may encounter - much better than previous Maple manuals that came with the application.
23) Vector Calculus (MA 490) A New Two-Credit Math Course, Rober J. Lopez (Privately published). This Manual Lopez developed for his vecotr calculus course is a Maple manual for his course. It is a wonderful resource for developing terrific graphs and getting ideas for how it incorporate Maple for similar topics in physics. For a copy of this manual email Lopez <robert.lopez@rose-hulman.edu>.
Web sites:
1) http://www.physics.byu.edu/~evenson/318/318.html
This is Evenson's WEB page for his Math Methods course. There
are sample problems which would be good to modify for physics courses.
I also found it interesting to see how he set up his course on the Web.
2) http://www.indiana.edu/~statmath/math/maple
This is the Web site from the Indiana University Math department.
It is very useful for links to other sites- seems exceptionally well organized.
There are examples for algebra, linear algebra, differential equations,
and Fourier series showing actual maple code.
3) http://www.geom.umn.edu
This site has a search mechanism that you will want to use to
get their Maple documents. They do some work on visualizing divergence
which you might find interesting for E+M.
4) http://www.physics.purdue.edu/~mph
This page is under construction at the moment but will contain
some very interesting mechanics problems and introductory physics problems
(for sophisticated introductory students).
5) http://www.maplesoft.com
They have book lists which are not annotated and some of the publishers
are out of date - but it is quite extensive. They also have some examples
which are fun to look at.
6) http://krupp.claremont.edu
This site is a good source of problems, actual worksheets and
ideas of how to incorporate Maple into Quantum Mechanics. Currently the
General Physics class and the E+M class use MathCAD but the will be updated
to Maple in the future.
7) http://www.math.scarolina.edu/~meade
Meade has references and links to other Maple sites.
8) ftp://www.denison.edu/pub/mathsci/stat/
When you get to this page click on the maple.hdb document with
the right mouse button, then (Save Link as...) and then choose a folder
that you wish to save it to.
9) http://dft.if.uerj.br/pdetools.html
This is a group in Brazil at Instituto de Fisica which has a
software package for partial differential equations. They are very active
in Maple as one can tell by their mirror which is at the University of
Waterloo.
Non-Maple Visual Sources:
1) Physics Simulation Programs, Robert H. Good (Physics Academic Software)
2)CUPS projects - all published by Wiley. Some titles follow.
Quantum Mechanics Simulations
Thermal and Statistical Physics Simulations
Astrophysics Simulations
3)Electric and Magnetic Interaction, Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood (Wiley). It has an accompanying CD-ROM has some very interesting canned programs with excellent visualization.
Sources for interesting introductory problems:
Texts:
1) Physics with Applications to Biology and Medicine, Benedek and Villars. 3 vols. (Addison-Wesley)
2) Scientific and Engineering Problem-Solving with the Computer, Bennett, W.R. Jr., , (BASIC, Prentice -Hall)
3) The Flying Circus of Physics, Jearl Walker (Wiley).
4) Conceptual Problems in Physics, Robert Gibbs.
5) Physics Foundations and applications, Eisberg and Lerner (McGraw-Hill).
6) Modern Physics, Ken Krane (Wiley, 1995) Good conceptual and short answer questions.
7) Physics, Dance, and the Pas de Deux (MacMillan, 1994) and Physics of Dance (Schirmer, 1984) Ken Laws. He discusses, among other things, the appearance of floating.
8) Classical and Modern Physics, Kenneth Ford (Wiley, 1983).
9) The Physics of Sports, Armenti, Angelo (AIP, 1992).
10) Physics of Sports: Selected Reprints, Cliff Frohlich, ed. (AAPT, 1986).
Other sources:
1) Ken and Pat Heller at Univ. of Minnesota, a wonderful source of context rich problems. ( An aside - he also has a great TA training manual and methods for training students how to grade problems and exams which contain useful insights for faculty also.)
2) AJP New problems - some interesting for classroom problems. Also the questions and answers at the beginning might be good sources.
3) Quantum has "clever" problems for students and articles which are discussion of physical situations which would make nice problems.
4) Videopoint software. Does have some physical examples to measure and a wonderful software program that makes measurement and analysis very easy and direct. It is also cheap.