Maple® for Environmental Sciences

a Helping Hand

By: Bill Scott

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Paperback | 24 April 2001

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What is this book about? Please take this book as it is, a working docu- ment. It started as an idea that has grown. It will never be correct but should be self-correcting. In the limit, if there is one, the book should approach a 'correct' state. It is not the detail, and the numbers, that matter, but the structures and the order. These structures are inherently linked with the many minds that have made Maple, the minds of perhaps the best mathematicians, certainly some of the most useful. Our environment is not separate from mathematics; mathematics is but one tool, of several, to help with understanding the environment. It is a harsh tool that requires numbers and symbolism; Maple handles the symbolism superbly; numbers need more consideration. We have included a substantial amount on reading and writing numbers, data, and dealing with floating point numbers. It is the 'devil in the detail' that continually comes back to us in working with Mathematics and Maple. It becomes 'raw' and defined. Many of the things we do have rational and logical bases, but we don't know what they are. Often, in following the code and 'talking' with an input line to Maple, the detailed way of performing a task becomes clear. But not without frustration; the task is invariably simple, though.

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"This book is a nice exercise-based introduction to Maple with applications in different fields of environmental sciences. From the first steps to quite sophisticated techniques and worksheet handling, the reader can learn the most important features of Maple through solving practical problems. ... I can warmly recommend the book to everyone who would like to learn and use Maple as a tool in the everyday work. The applications and examples make it especially useful for applied study, research or practical work in life science." (Janos Karsai, Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum, Vol. 69, 2003)

"This is a kind of cookbook on how to use Maple ... and on how this most useful language can be used in a specific area of environmental sciences. It is a very practical book, full of worked examples, exercises and lots of references to other books, journals and websites. ... The book is very clearly written, nicely presented and well illustrated. ... it is a must for ... readers who specialize in the author's specific field of environmental sciences." (R. Hauspie, International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Vol. 18 (4), 2002)

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Turning On: Hints	p. 1
The Semicolon	p. 2
Using Help	p. 17
Helpful Hints	p. 19
Frequent Errors	p. 20
Reference Material: types and commands	p. 30
Your own Environment: .ini and interface	p. 52
Structures and Analysis: Help	p. 61
Pulling Maple Apart	p. 62
Area of a Lake	p. 76
Environmental Numbers	p. 78
Worksheets and Documents	p. 89
AAArgh-]Self Help	p. 97
Manipulations, Procedures and Plots	p. 113
Functions and Procedures	p. 114
Plotting	p. 118
Procedures	p. 122
Operands	p. 127
Dots, Arrows and Fill	p. 134
plot Options	p. 143
PLOT Structures	p. 150
Fractals	p. 162
Pretty Rotations	p. 173
Applications: Field Data	p. 179
Contour Data	p. 180
Bubbles: A Visualization	p. 190
Interpolation: An Application	p. 204
Acid Rain: A Look at Solution Chemistry	p. 228
Simultaneous Solutions: Matrices	p. 245
Equations and Matrices	p. 246
Breakfast Foods	p. 255
Balancing a Chemical Equation	p. 258
Dilution: Rivers and Solutions	p. 261
An Air Quality Index: Least Squares	p. 266
Turbulence: Rotating Statistics	p. 271
Struvite: Fertilizer and Kidney Stone	p. 288
Active Plotting and Spreadsheets	p. 311
Clicking on a Solution	p. 312
Capture and Post	p. 316
Smartplots	p. 325
Spreadsheets	p. 331
I/O from Spreadsheets	p. 342
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Industry Reviews

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